I think I can, I think I can...

It has been a long time since my last post. And I have some posts in the hopper that need fine tuning, but I wanted to throw this out there this morning...

I subscribe to a certain running publication's daily thoughts online and this is the one I got today:

It's a long, hard road and it's going to have its bumps; there are going to be times when you fall and times when you don't feel like going on anymore, times when you're just crazy tired but it takes focusing on that one step you're taking. That's what I'm trying to do with the marathon; I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment. --Ryan Hall on running a marathon

This is so true, not just in running, but in many facets of life. I've felt like planning this wedding is certainly a marathon. You can do all of this planning and preparing, but once you hit mile 23 (aka 11 days to go) you had better have the mental toughness to push you through until the end and cross that finish line. Just to be clear, the finish line in this case is the planning part of the wedding. Saying the vows etc I think of as an entirely different marathon... one I plan to finish :)

Marriage in itself is its own marathon, but I'll write more on that once I get there.