One week to go!  Pictured above are my wedding planning mantras!  This time next week we should be just about lining up the bridal party for the processional... Well, I am still breathing after one crazy week.  Last weekend we helped Alex and Aya move a couch, table and a bed into their apartment.... plus a few of their lovely wedding gifts.  Alex started orientation classes at Emory on Monday.  About the same time they discovered their apartment unit has a flea infestation.  Are you kidding me?!?!  Poor Aya got the worst of it:  swollen ankles, nasty bites, itching and not sleeping at night.    Wedding details took a backseat to more important issues like dealing with the apartment management,  scheduling fumigation and considering all options.  Alex and Aya moved back to our house (after  first setting off bug bombs and cooking their bags in the trunk of the car before being allowed into the house) Sorry kids but we couldn't risk it.

Meanwhile, a few days ago Mochi the family dog decided to throw up in several places in the house, of course on the carpet.  Really Mochi?  Turns out she attacked some exotic prey (otherwise known as my ostrich feather duster).  Feathers all over my deck.  Why was the feather duster on the deck you ask?  Because all the items in my laundry room were moved so I could maneuver behind my washing machine to try to diagnose why it was leaking.  My twenty-year old washer has chosen this time to start pitching fits.  Water all over the floor....of course with company coming...and Chandler arriving home with all her stuff after a year abroad!

Seems like everybody has a story like this...perhaps just something else to be factored into the hustle,  bustle and general chaos one finds oneself in when the wedding is a week away!  I am looking forward to eating cake and celebrating!!