Weddingbee Blog

I first off want to apologize for being MIA on the blogging front this week. But I promise, promise, promise you it was for a good reason! I would never let the hive hang without there being a huge, life-changing, reason behind the neglect. This week I was doing a little of this:

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and a little of this:

Image via HMS Holding Corp.

And a lot of crying. Why? Remember how I told you all that I took a job back in 2009 to give Mr. D and me some time apart to decide what we wanted in our relationship? Well, part of taking that job meant that I had to sign a two year contract. During that time I have learned a lot of things about myself. I became a Christian, I became a part-time mother and a full-time friend to the children I cared for, I became a champion of Autism Awareness, I became a better, more grown-up person.

Mr. D and I had been in a quasi long distance relationship after he graduated (he is two years older than me), but he had just moved across our college town into a small apartment. I stuck around campus most of the time, to keep some semblance of a college experience, but I knew he was always there if I needed an escape. He moved back to his hometown at the beginning of my senior year, which was then 3 hours away. That only lasted all of three months and a half months before my withdrawal from school.

This two years living 4 hours apart was hard, and it was made even more so due to our situation with Mr. D’s sister. It got even harder the longer we were apart. The longest we got to be together during these two years was six days. Other than that I got to drive home for my 3 day weekend about twice a month, and the occasional four day one would pop up here and there.

Those days are finally over. Because as you are reading this, I am doing this:

Clipart from Microsoft/Graphic by Miss Doily

That’s right, I am finally moving back to Iowa to be with Mr. D and our kitties full-time. My two-year self-banishment to Chicago is finally over. It is most definitely bittersweet. I have cared for the same three children the entire time I have lived here. I have watched as they have grown as little people, watched as they hit milestones, and as they made some backslides. I have seen what having an Autistic child can do to a person who has to bear the weight of it all on her own. It’s a beautiful triumph of human spirit.

But now I get to be with the man I love, all the time. I know that after a few weeks, the excitement of being together again will wear off and we will start our little arguments over whose turn it is to wash the dishes, or whose turn it is to dust the bookshelves, but I’m excited to get to experience this again. After being apart for two years, I get to rediscover all of the little things about Mr. D that made me fall in love with him in the first place.

So hive, I may not be back for a few more days (because while I move back tonight, Mr. D and I are immediately leaving in the morning for his Grandmother’s house for a family reunion, and she does not have internet), but I promise, I have some goodies to share with you next week! Miss Chicago Doily is signing off, and Miss Iowa Doily will be signing back on shortly!