packing away

this year has been so quick. everything we have accomplished seems to have run away with itself.

i really can't believe that we are nearing the last month of the year and that we are already 142 days married.

i picked up my clean wedding dress today and tim's wedding shirt. that really is the last money to be spent on the whole event. although i am still deliberating over what to do about an album as i love all 657 photos we got from the girl that is emma case photography, this may have to roll into 2014, so i am parking that piece for now.  the boxed wedding dress saddens me... but at the same time makes me realise that we are moving on with our lives and I am looking forward to that, i just hope it doesn't go quite so quick.

the piece of this year that really has run away with itself is my little dad's condition.  i am hoping that as we are nearing a cold spell in the year that something magical freezes the speed of his deterioation and for a moment the whole experience falls into some kind of suspended animation phase.  i want to hold on to the man i have always known for a little bit longer.  i am so grateful that i was able to experience that person on our big day and that the point I fear he is now at didn't rear its ugly head until now. i am still hopeful that the rapid decline is drug induced and thereby reversible. i love this man and it just doesn't seem fair.

on a positive note with the speed of the year upon us we are now at that time where we can start making plans for the white stuff. one trip booked already the ski moon and another just being collated.  what better to finish a speedy year with a swoosh down a few mountain sides. can't wait!!