the end.

Andddd.... it's over.

Lots and lots of planning, one beautiful day... dunzo.

I want wedding pictures but no one will give me any (that's a semi-lie, Casey posted some nice ones!).  I am horribly lonely during the day... I want a job now, but I am stuck in limbo at home at least until Wellesley starts.  Actually I am teaching Friday morning for the Rashi School in Newton, but that is only a few hours a week.



This whole name-change issue has been kind of a pickle for me.  You never give your last name a second thought, until you have to change it.  Don't have to, I guess, but I am.  It's not that I am against getting Russell's name or anything, I obviously enjoy the people he got his name from and his family... it just feels weird.  I am not even super invested in my last name's heritage from my dad's side of the family- I love my grandparents over there but I don't overly identify there.  It was always so nice in grade school being the first one in line, being in the first classroom, being called early during graduation etc... the perks of having an A-name.  Now it's an H-name and it is just not the same being in the middle of the alphabet.  Also, to a lot of people I am 'kimallen' one name!  When Caty moved to Florida in elementary school she talked about me constantly, as her bff back in NH.  However, her sister is also named Kim, so when our families went on vacation we were always 'kim allen' and 'kim fay', not like jenny... caty... etc.  Anyways... when I met a bunch of her FL friends on a visit, they were like oh you are kim allen... what is your last name?  excellent.

So... in order to make it work a bit more, I left it Kimberleigh Ruth Allen Holman.