Category Archives: Marriage

Thoughts, ideas and resources

When the voices start arguing

After thoroughly embarrassing myself and my husband in my last post (*Update 5/5/08 - I deleted that post after too many of my husband’s coworkers mentioning to him that I seemed like a crazy woman*), I swore I would never post emotionally again.
Yet, here I am. An emotional poster and an emotional eater. Awesome.
I’ve been [...]

At least I only threw up once

What’s worse than being awakened by the need to fling yourself over the toilet and wretch non existants?
Realizing that you have 20 minutes to shower, dress, wake the kids, dress the kids, feed the kids and drive 15 minutes to your OB apt.
What’s worse than that?
Showering, putting on make up, dressing, sweetly waking the kids, [...]

“I do.” Even when you act stupid.

Things have been much better between Dustin and I since we’ve moved into our new home. It wasn’t until a couple of weeks ago though that I actually considered it that way. We’re still emotionally bruised from last year, but our arguing has definitely changed for the better.
When we were on our [...]

Help me prove my point

Do you blog in your head? I do. At night, Dustin will ask me what I’m blogging as I lie in bed with my eyes closed.
Lately, I’ve been blogging about our marriage, but you wouldn’t know that since, it’s … well, all in my head. The sucky thing is, now that I have the time [...]

My thorn bush grew a rose

Life is never perfect.
Well, there was this one moment on my honeymoon when I fell asleep on the houseboat with my skin tingling from the afternoon sun, a nice wine buzz and a heart so full of love I think I might have been floating. But apart from that moment, life never totally slows down. [...]

House Tour: Guest Bath & Laundry Room

One of the things I love about my husband is his need for simplicity. If his hair needs a trim, he bypasses the barber and shaves his head. If it can’t fit in his pocket, he doesn’t take it. If it has more than 3 buttons to push, you don’t need it.
In [...]

House Tour: The Backyard

It’s 6:30 pm, the kids have just gone to bed…
Our crazy dog barks.
Me: What was that?
Dustin: I was throwing the ball at the freakin’ dog and missed. I swear, if she wakes up the kids…
Me: It’s a good thing I know you can’t throw worth a darn, otherwise, you’d appear to be violent.
Dustin: [...]

We’re having dissagreements. Hooray!

People pleaser checking in. I’m such a people pleaser it actually makes my stomach sick. I’ve had most of our furniture listed on Craigslist because 1. We don’t want to move it 2. I want new stuff!. I’ve been dialogging back and forth with this lady about some bookshelves I’m selling. [...]

Guilty Secrets

I’m taking up Suburban Turmoil’s challenge and listing out some of my own little nasties.
The Ugly: (mom don’t read this, it will make things pucker)

In order to get Maddie to sit still long enough for pigtails, I let her sort through her “pretties” while I wrangle her hair into those ridiculously small hair [...]

Above the below and below the upper

We signed on our new house yesterday, Dustin got his first Godaddy paycheck and I let my emotions get the better of me.
There’s been peace in our home the past two weeks. True Godly peace. We aren’t balanced yet or in the clear but I think both are o.k.. Dustin wrote out a personal contract [...]