Did anything exciting happen while I was gone?
1. Allegiant Air was awesome. They're a total discount airline, but we were able to fly to PHX for the wedding for only a little more than driving would have cost us, and then we weren't in the car for 30 hours in one week. True, we didn't get much extra family time, but that's ok.
2. The wedding was really nice. I had opinions about the rehearsal and the coordinator and her icky "Dad stays between Bride and Groom till the last minute!" jokes, and the lovely bar tip jar, but it was a small, sensible wedding where the ceremony and the guests took center stage.
3. I wish my brother were more organized, though: I kept bugging him for phone numbers or emails for the music guys so I could learn the songs he wanted, and he never got them to me. Mostly he picked hymns, but of course they wanted an Ave Maria to give flowers to Mary, and all I know is a plain chant. I could have learned one if I'd known two months ago instead of 45 minutes before the ceremony.
4. Also, I was only in one formal picture, and the photog was wearing a hoodie sweater and knit pants. ?
5. Bacon was the ring bearer more than a flower girl, but she got to carry a bouquet, too. She was thrilled beyond thrilled.
6. One of our uncles showed up, and it was nice to see him, but he was giving me and H grief about how we don't talk to my grandbitches. "You know, you don't send them pictures of Bacon, and that really hurts them."
Whatever. I bet their fists really hurt my mom, too, so guess what? We're even. Uncle was saying to H, "You didn't invite them to your wedding, either", and H was all, "Yeah, I didn't invite MY MOM, either." Maybe if they weren't horrible people, they'd get invited places, yo. Their refusal to be decent human beings is not my problem.
7. I am glad to be home, in my own bed. I slept with Bacon one night we were away, because my H + tiny bed + bad mattress = no effing way. Plus, it's nice and cold here. The weather in PHX wasn't bad - cool and rainy - but it meant that everyone had their heat cranked like it was darkest winter in the Arctic. No, thank you.