Me being Me, Nuts!

OMG its 2 posts in 1 day! Ok that sounded kind of stupid but oh well. I realized reading my last post, which i posted about ten minutes ago, that i have left out some serious stuff and that some of what i was saying didnt sound REAL. Meaning, yes i did make this blog to talk about me planning my wedding, BUT who really wants to read about invitations and photographers and the usual wedding stuff. This should be fun and personal! Hence the reason i changed my name from ChelseaTheBride, to ChelseaJustChelsea (Couldnt think of anything else) but atleast it shows that i am not just a bride. I AM A FREAKING HUMAN BEING TO! I'm just me.

Speaking of just being me, i've been thinking about this whole name change thingy. My last name is Moody and it will be changing to, well you dont need to know that one. My point is i am a Moody, have been my entire life. I think it suites me, especially because i bounce around from one mood to the next just about every hour. Its going to be weird not being a Moody anymore. Its also very sad because once my name changes my fathers last name wont carry on. See hes one of three, well more like 6, but three of them are step. Anyways my dad has a brother and a sister, well HAD. Its sad to say but, my father is the only living one out of the three of them, and they both had daughters who do not have the Moody name. My little sister has the Moody name to but one day that will change and thats it! No more Moodys! Its hard to think about, I secretly wish i could pass the name down some how. But that wont happen because i am changing my name and my future children will have my new name. So theres nothing i can do. Maybe once of my children one day will meet a Moody, thats not related to us, and then the Moody line can start over. That would be nice, but doubtful.

New subject i am getting sad thinking about the end of the Moody line. Children! I mentioned children a second ago and yes that has been a big discussion between me and my fiance. I want two, well i really want more like five but i'll be lucky if he agrees to two. He wants one, a boy. Figures! Men and their boys! Boys run in his family so the numbers are against me. At the same time, girls run in my family so i have a little light of hope. Especially because if our first child is a girl then he will want to try again for a boy and i will get my two. One can only hope. I try and tell him that we need to two. That way when our kids have kids, their kids will have at least one aunt/uncle and hopefully some cousins. He nodded a little when i said that. Then i pull out the crazy card. Yes i have many crazy cards and i pull them out when i am trying to convince somebody of something and cant think of anything else. I say to him "Well babe what if we only have one, and they end up gay? We wont have any grandchildren!" He gave me the stupid look when i said that.

Thats the look ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Then he proceeds to tell me that gay couples can adopt children. Duh, babe, Duh! Dont get me wrong i do not have a problem with gay people at all! If i had a child that came up to me one day and said "Mom I am Gay." I'd be like "Well are you happy?" and if they said yes then i would be like "Then i am happy to." As long as my children are happy then i will be happy.But yes i do want some blood related grand kids one day. Adopted grand kids would be fine to just as long as i got one that is blood related. God i hope that doesnt make me sound crazy. Anyways my brain works in weird ways and yes it makes me think of things like "We need to have two kids in case one turns out gay we will still have a chance at grand kids." and yes i know it sounds stupid but at the time i thought it was a good argument for us to have two kids. I am not really sure if he bought it but if it gets me two kids one day then i am good. 

Then we start talking about discipline. Apparently in Louisiana if you'r kid is bad in school the teachers can call you and ask for permission to PADDLE your children. Will said he wouldnt let them do it because he'd rather do it himself when he got home. I think its all nuts. I understand giving your kids a quick swat, wow that sounds bad, maybe the word pat would be better fitted, i dont know, something quick. But paddling? That seems a little extreme to me. I was never hit as a kid so maybe i dont get it. My lovely fiance has been, um, "punished" as a kid and so he thinks its best that you'r children respect you and be scared of you. I think they should be able to feel like they can talk to you about anything with out being scared of getting hit in the mouth.  Clearly me and him were raised completely different, but we were both wild when we were teenagers so how can any one really say which way works better. All i can say is we dont have children now but hopefully when the day comes that we are blessed with children we will have some idea of what to do. Until then i will take my pill faithfully. 

Ok now i am done and am going to bed, no more posts for tonight. 

Its Been A While

So its been a while since I've wrote on here. I started this blog thinking i could post some stuff about planning my wedding and forgot about it for a while, sorry. But i am back now and determined to keep up with it this time.

So the planning! I've been making invitations non stop because i thought it would be cheap to do them my self, but oh my gosh its hard work. Though I am proud to say I am almost done. Yay me!

My dad surprised the hell out of me these past couple weeks. A while back i asked him for help with paying for our wedding venue and he agreed to pay for all of it. Then he said he wanted to help with the DJ and well long story short my father has decided to pay for the venue, the DJ, the photographer, the cake, the food, and the drinks. I am at lost for words to describe how grateful i am for him doing all of this. We had planned on paying for everything ourselves and the fact that my father wants to do it just blows me away. I know what some of you are thinking, trust me. Your probably thinking "Oh he must of not done much for her growing up and wants to repay her by paying for her wedding." but its not that at all. He just wants to be a good dad and do this for me. It just surprises me because I didn't expect him to pay for all of that. I'm the kind of person that doesn't really like to ask for help so for some one to offer, and offer so much, it just throws me back a little. Because of him my wedding day will be more then i would have ever dreamed it would be. I will now have a photographer, which i could never afford with out his help. I'll also be able to get more food and drinks which is great because our guest list has gone from 200 people to over 300 people. I know he wont be reading this but, thanks dad!

Church or no Church? That is the question.

So today I was waiting to clock in at work and decided to give my mom a call. Before i can even say the usual, Hey. How are you? She says "Your Mommoms(grandmother) is here. Say hi a second." I love my Mommom so I didn't fight my mom about talking to her, like I usually do when she wants me to say "hi" to someone near her. My Mommom gets on the phone and starts right away with the wedding talk. I love that, I'm so happy shes excited about it. But ofcorse my big mouth had to get in the way of our nice discussion by saying "Hey, guess what? Dad was unhappy about me not getting married in a church as much as you were. Aint that something?"  The second it came out my mouth i wanted to bang my head on the table infront of me.

Heres the background on this. Me and my fiance' ,Will, have decided to get married in a hall. The ceremony and reception will be held in the same place. It how alot of weddings in Louisiana are done. Plus we got a great deal on our hall. Not only that but we dont go to church so i would feel weird getting married in a church that I'm not even apart of. Its not that we arent religious, because we are. But we rather praise God from home rather than be lectured about sins, and evil in church. My Mommom doesnt get that and when i told her she wasnt happy with it. Turns out neither was my dad.

So right away we get into the debate of the hall versus a church. This is kind of how the conversation went.

Mommom- I know there is churches near you that you could attend and then get married in.
Me-Mommom we just arent church going people.
Mommom-Thats nonsence
Me-Its cheaper to get married in a hall, we'r on a budget.
Mommom-i dont believe that. Churches arent expensive.
Me-Well i dont want to get married in a church other than our church, it would feel weird.
Mommom-Well than fly back home and have your wedding here.
Me-Now that most deffinitly would cost to much money.
Mommom- No our church wouldnt charge you anything
Me-What about plane tickets and a hotel for a week. We dont have that kind of money.
Mommom- It would save us money.
(clearly shes not listening now)
Me-Thats not going to happen mommom.
Mommom-Well you should get married in a house of god
Me-(lighting a ciggerette) God created the world, there for anywhere i get married can be considered a house of god.
Mommom-We'll i'm just going to have to keep on you about getting married in a church until your wedding day.
Me-Ok mommom but its not going to work.
Mommom-well i love you, i'll talk to you later sweety.

My Mommoms stubborn, i guess shes who i get it from. I also know her promise of getting on me about it untill the wedding is something I cant control and will have to deal with. I love her and understand her point but I've already paid for my hall, and i'm keeping it at that.

No Church!

Where To Start?

Hi, my name is Chelsea. I am 20 yrs old and i live in Louisiana, originally from Maryland. That would be a long story, but here i am to blog about planning my wedding. I am engaged to a 19 yr old man, named Will. He is a welder at a ship yard and his amazing. I love him so much! We got engaged about two years ago and this past May we have decided to start planning our wedding. The date has been set to January 14, 2012. Well theres the basics.

So now where to start? I had no clue at first, i've never planned a wedding before. But since May i've gotten my dress, planned the cake and food, and put a down payment on our venue. I feel as if many of the big things are handled, now i'm starting to worry about the little things. Our wedding is only five and a half months away. Every time i say that or think about that i start freaking out. It feels like its right around the corner. I guess i;m kind of stressed out about it, but at the same time very very excited!

Well i think thats all i got for my first post. Yay me!