check

It's so exciting. Like a child counting down the days until Christmas, and seeing the number of gifts adding up, piling on top of each other in their shiny, ribbon-donned wrapping. Box after box on my check list is slowly but surely being checked off with a satisfactory swipe of the hand... And even more satisfying is knowing that those boxes are so much heavier than others; their importance weighs so much more in the overall scheme of things, so to see them marked off... What a relished sigh of accomplishment. To a certain extent, it still feels so surreal. Like I'm planning someone else's wedding. But then my thoughts travel to the beautiful white gown that lays safely dormant in a box...I can almost hear its fibers tickling in anticipation. My fingers desperately fiddle and clutch with a mind of their own, helplessly desiring to unveil it once again.

With every day, my patience grows a little stronger...