They had returned from their vacation on Tuesday night, now two days later, she was still talking to Richie about a possible wedding later this month or in September.
The day after they had arrived back home, Richie had an interview on tv about his clothing line and tomorrow he was off with Ava to the U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton, Sarah decided she'd spend tomorrow at home then.
Richie was playing a telethon on tv the first weekend of September, so those days were out of question, which only left them two weeks before school would start and Sarah still had to move in too.
By now Sarah spent more time at Richie's house than at her mother's. Ava had gone back home too.
Both of them had told their children together about their plans, according to the kids there wasn't much for them to decide and they wished their parents good luck.
"Planning the wedding again?" Richie asked as he sat down next to Sarah.
"There wasn't anything on tv and you were busy and it just popped into my mind." Sarah answered.
"You haven't even picked a date out." Richie pointed out.
"I know, what it is it today? 18th August?"
Richie nodded.
"When does school start?" She asked.
"29th so we need to get the boys listed at school."
Sarah nodded, "we can do that Monday because you're not home tomorrow either, and then we need to move over here."
Richie nodded again. "Busy."
"The beginning of September? The day after you play that telethon?"
"That's labor day." Richie pointed out again.
"Last day to do something nice during summer." Sarah suggested.
"What about that weekend, we have to make sure everyone can come over... 10 September?" Richie asked back.
"September 10th, 2011." Sarah said the date.
"9/10/11." Richie chuckled.
"We can do that so you can have fun with the date." Sarah suggested.
"It's a fun date, we need invitations too."
"Oh I can find a website for that." Sarah excitedly returned to Google to search for wedding invitation designs or people that could design them.
She loved her new laptop.
During the weekend Sarah packed her stuff into boxes, it was strange to leave her mothers house now but she felt confident into moving in with Richie. With him she'd be fine now.
Her sons were doing the same thing in their rooms, while at Richie's house, Richie was emptying guests rooms so the boys could decorate it however they wanted it.
While packing Sarah also threw out clothes and stuff she didn't need anymore, she didn't need it anymore.
On Sunday evening all the boxed stood in the living room, ready to be brought to Richie's house.
Sarah tried hard to not start crying when Richie arrived and the boys helped him to put all the boxes in his big car. This was such a huge step and she wouldn't have her mother to be with her anymore, but she had her soon to be husband to support her along the way.
When she finally hugged her mum and said goodbye, her tears started flowing.
Her tears weren't completely sad. They were sad because she was leaving her mother and her home of the past ten years behind but happy and hopeful for the future and what would come next.
She finally let go of her mother and turned to hug Richie in stead.
"Ready to go?" Richie asked after a few minutes.
Sarah nodded.
It wasn't just ready to go, ready to go on too.
Richie gave her a hand to get in the car and got in on the other side, he backed the car out of the driveway and drove to his now, different too, home.
By Tuesday everything fell into place.
The boys were ready to start at their new school, a little excited and nervous since it was less than a week away now.
Sarah loved living at Richie's house, it was a lot easier, she didn't need to bring things over anymore.
Richie had shown her to his walk in closet, amazed Sarah had looked around, she hadn't nearly seen everything every time she had been there before. Now half of that closet, which was empty was for her. To her relief, Richie helped putting all her clothes away, packing it had been enough work on her own and she was glad she could share this, like many things to come.
Tuesday night they had their first almost-family dinner, Ava was at her mother's for the week but would return on Sunday for the start of school.
Wednesday morning Sarah was excited and impatiently waiting for the mail to arrive. She knew it would be delivered in a box that she needed to sign for so the mailman had to bring it all the way to the door and she couldn't wait for him to ring the bell.
She needed to see now so she could still change some things if needed.
Again, she tried to focus on other things she needed to finish too. So far she had the flowers arranged and Richie had made sure they could get married on the beach. They needed the invitations and catering. Then most importantly Sarah needed her wedding dress and a maid of honour one for Ava.
Ava was more than excited to be maid of honour and was very happy Sarah had given her the role, it meant a lot to her. Most important, the only one so she could get all the attention on her own until Sarah would walk down the aisle..
For the rest they needed tuxedos, Sarah's son would be ushers, glad they didn't have to wear jackets and could just wear their shirts and a tie like that.
Sarah and Richie needed to go shopping this week.
Everything else was almost arranged, a few more little things other than sending off the invitations and they would be ready to have the beach wedding Sarah wanted to have.
Finally the door bell rang and Sarah jumped up from her chair in the kitchen to go open the door.
She signed the form and accepted the little box, thanked the man and closed the door.
"Richie! The wedding invitations are here. Come see!"
Bring on the wedding!!!
ReplyDeleteThe invitations are great! Sarah was really getting in to the planning. It's great all the kids were included. Cant' wait for the wedding. Great chapter.
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