Mishaps

Believe it or not, I tried to post on here earlier, although I know that doesn't remove my slacker status. Somehow, it was deleted in the middle of working on it. Oh well. Can't even remember what it was about. Must have been important. :) Anyway, I'm on to a totally new topic today.
I would like to address the changes life takes after marriage. Pre-marriage, I engaged in such crafts as shown above. I road tripped with my niefews (gender neutral of niece and nephew) and sister-in-law Natalie (who is probably the only person who has even read this). Man, I even had time to spend beating my parents and sister at Rook! That is not an easy feat considering that my dad creates rules that only he can win at. 

Now that I'm married, life has changed for the better in a lot of ways and for the stranger in a lot of others. You see I married a habitual sleep walker.  Here is a picture I took of one of the many instances. He believed the light was dripping chocolate all over me and he had to stop it. (This is a light on our ceiling.) He went and found a plastic grocery bag and placed it over the light in order to protect me. As I said, this happens often. When he is stressed, it's a nightly or multi-time nightly occurrence. Everything from holding up walls to wrapping me snugly in the covers to protect me before he turns on the light. 


Another of the new developments: I'm always on the lookout for open drawers, cupboards, anything! I only hit my head once and ever since I keep the look out. I close his dresser drawers at least 2-5 times a day because, as poorly pictured, he has a hard time remembering to do so.


However, marriage has a lot of less strange changes as well. One of my favorites is in-laws. I couldn't have picked better ones! Debbie is a great cook with one hang up. She doesn't use recipes so I can't duplicate it. Here we had been invited over for her beyond beautiful bbq pork ribs. The first time I had them, I thought I might die from their deliciousness. They're messy and sticky and saucy and perfect!


I also somehow wrangled the sweetest, most thoughtful husband out there. He is full of the sweetest gestures. Anything from picking or buying flowers to finding a heart shaped cereal flake and saving it to give it to me. 

He helps cook and clean and doesn't even have to be asked. Its better than a mission companion! It's these little things that make it easy to be married. 
I don't know what exactly it is that causes the changes. I'm not the only one to notice though. Couples everywhere notice after marriage they aren't the people they were before. Somehow staying awake past 9:00 becomes painful, even when studying VERY important literature. 

Somehow I went from helping my parents raise a very successful garden for 20ish years to having this as our entire garden crop...not even just the entire potato crop but the entire GARDEN crop. Marriage creates so many different interests that somehow, gardening just got dropped.

 The change I think I enjoy the very most is that I'm no longer alone. No matter what I want to do, he will do it with me. He drags me EVERYWHERE with him.  We can be in the middle of nowhere, on a mountain somewhere, and he's right there beside me. That makes every banged knee or forehead worth it.