Girlfriends, episode number 114.

Three Ideas for Holy Week.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends.

I'm Danielle Bean.

I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman

so you can find peace,

balance, and joy in family living. This week, I'll be getting you caught up on birthdays and

engagement and other goings on in my life and beyond, as well as sharing three simple ideas

for your Holy Week. Let's get going.

Hey, girlfriends, how are you? I feel like I haven't chatted with you in a while. It's been a week,

I guess, but since last week was kind of a quickie and then an interview that I pre-recorded,

I feel like I haven't been connecting with you. Anyway, I'm glad you're here. I'm glad I'm here.

I'm glad we're connecting again. I was kind of thinking this would be a shorter episode for Holy Week. I've got a number of things going on anyway. I'm pretty sure a lot of you are busy this week. I was just looking at our calendar this morning. I'm recording this early afternoon on Monday and realized, wow, it's going to be hard for us to get to Holy Week liturgies this week, but I'm going to make a valiant effort in spite of practice schedules and other commitments and that sort of thing, all the regular family life stuff that's going on.

So speaking of goings-on, we have a daughter who's engaged.

This is so exciting.

And I'm thrilled and Dan is thrilled. Our oldest daughter, Catery, her boyfriend, Brian, proposed while I was in L.A., the nerve, you know, I wasn't

home for this joyous event, but it was, it was wonderful. We're very happy. We've just been

waiting for this. We've been anticipating it, waiting for this to happen. And we're thrilled to welcome Brian to our family. They're planning a wedding probably for summer of 2019. So we've got a little time. But I'm a newbie. This is my first kid to get married, to get engaged. So if you are a veteran of this, or if you've been through this before, I'm taking any and all

ideas, comments, advice, support, whatever you've got for me as a mother of the bride.

I definitely am interested in ideas about keeping it simple and budget-friendly ideas for a wedding

because, you know, as much as I appreciate the

big to-dos that sometimes people go to with weddings, well, first of all, we can't afford it.

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