Ramblings

The first part of May found Brandt in dismay because a dog ate one of his AirPods. I laughed so hard I had tears running out of my eyes. May is my birthday month which means that I turned 22! 22! The day after my birthday I flew out to Pensacola Florida for my bachelorette party with my beautiful bridesmaids (we missed you Kaycee). our hotel was right by the beach and it was beautiful. It was a vacation in its true form. We hope to do it again in the future.

I walked across the stage on the 18th which made the completion of my degree a lot more real.

The 19th they held a bridal shower/sendoff for me here in Poughkeepsie. Everyone from the city also attended; Not everyone gets to have two bridal showers but I am the lucky one.

This blog is all over the place but bear with me, I have the wedding fog brain:;

It is hard to believe that 6 months went by so quick.

Change comes with both joy and sadness. I went to church for the last time as a member of the Poughkeepsie/NYC group. I knew that as I was walking out I will probably feel a little emotional but I was surprised by how much I just wanted to burst out crying. I have spent countless hours in the mission house, I have often called it home away from home. So stepping out from the building not sure when I will return, and even when I do return things will have changed so much. It was an heartbreaking thought. Change comes with giving up so much but at the same time I am gaining so much more. I have had so much anxieties about getting married and moving to a new place getting use to a new way of life that it was almost sometimes so hard to exited but all it took was for me to redirect my focus. Instead of focusing on the negative I focused on the positive. You might think that is such a simple and obvious solution but welp it is always so hard to see the solution that is right in front of us instead we grapple in the dark.

My last day at my job is this Friday. I am very sad to leave because I have spent countless hours there (no kidding if you know me you know that I basically live at work lol). I adore my individuals even though they stress me out a lot. My coworkers have been great…I started working there when I was 19, being the youngest one at work means I was looked after by everyone. It was a joy to go to work. My job is mostly routine work but there are days when I have had to spend hours in the ER, hospital rooms. I often liken it to having kids lol. You shower them, you feed, you cloth them and you take them to their program and they throw temper tantrum just like toddlers. Can you tell how much I love my job?

I have officially ran out things to say so bye bye! May your days be filled with joy and laughter.

Love, Abigael