Things I Love

Whew...thanks for hanging in there with me yesterday. I had way too much {useless} information filtering through my head...and it had to escape somehow. Apparently the blog was the way. It's probably not nice of me to use you that way, is it?

Next week, Ryan and I will celebrate 3 months of marriage, and I have people who ask me how I like this whole married life thing. LOVE IT, thankyouverymuch! And so I shall say some of my favorite things about life with Ryan.

* I love having someone to share evenings with. I was pretty accustomed to life at home alone - but it got terribly lonely. And adding activities didn't subtract from the loneliness. Sometimes the activities helped me stay busy enough that the sting didn't hurt quite so much, but the ache was still there. It's nice to come home and know that he's there to laugh with...eat dinner with...talk to...cry on...{that would NEVER happen}...and sometimes just to sit beside. It's lovely. And I don't take it for granted.

* He balances me. After a disastrous encounter with trying on my wedding dress again this week, I'm living the salad and water life until our reception...and I take those things awfully seriously. On the first day of salad-ville, he came in the door for dinner and said, "We should make cupcakes." I just kind of looked at him and he said, "There's no reason why you can't have a cupcake now and then." And it was good for me. It was good for me to not be so salad-driven that I couldn't enjoy one little cupcake. {And learn to only have ONE little cupcake.} I appreciate him for that.

* He makes up words and owns them. A few weeks ago, we were having a conversation and something annoyed him...and he said, "That betroths me." I stopped, looked at him and said "What??" He repeated it and I just giggled. "Do you know what betroth means?" Undaunted, he said, "Well, when I say it, it means annoyed." I told him it really had to do with engagement, but he would not be swayed. It has now become our word for annoyed... "Oh that betroths me." It actually does make a person feel better to say it. I've got some of my work buds saying it now, and my goal is to use it so regularly that everyone knows that betroth is just another word for annoy. And what I love most of all is that in the face of using the wrong word, he didn't care - he just made it the right word!

* Life is just sweeter. He spoils me and I enjoy it because I let him do it. I spoil him {though probably not as often as I should} and he enjoys it and lets me do it. I thoroughly enjoy time spent with him and it really betroths me when we have to be apart. :) I can't believe this blessing in my life - still! - and am just so grateful for each day we have.