Married Life

I have been married just over a month now. Life hasn't changed much and I didn't expect it to after all this time living together. Although, I have noticed that Brad is much more calm and relaxed. At least in some aspects of life. Other aspects, like house hunting, has not been what we expected.

As a kid, I loved going with my parents to house hunt before we bought the house in Michigan. Even as a kid in Texas when we went house hunting, I loved it most days. Especially because it always seemed to be in the fall. On cloudy, rain, chilly days, we'd gather in the van and start driving around. I love that now that we are house hunting, Brad and I do the same thing. It is so much fun planning the future together this way and spending quality time isolated with my husband.

Can I also just say that I really love calling Brad my husband?

Speaking of Brad, he started his new work schedule and is home at night now. I didn't realise just how nice it was to have him come home and get to sleep in the same bed at the same time as him. Down side is he doesn't get home until 11:30 at night, but still, the important thing to me is I can kiss him goodnight and snuggle with him on the nights I don't have to be up at 5am for work. Yeah, that was my day this morning. 5am wake ups are not fun, but I'm thinking of it as training for when our child wakes me at 5am.

Brad has been working so hard to give us the life we want. We want a house. We found one we love. We just have to wait a little longer to get it is all. I'm hoping that in 6 months when our lease on this apartment is up, we'll be able to buy it. I want it more than anything at the moment. Brad and I are focused on working to get the house we want. However, I know better than to hope that this house will be available in six months. So much happens in that time. So we are going to continue our search and just keep an eye out on the other one.

In the meantime, as we save and focus on the house buying, I'm hanging pictures that I held off on for the longest time. I've pulled out some of the fall decor. I'm probably going to expand said decor in the next week. I want to make it feel as fall and homey as I can. I missed fall so much when we lived in Florida and these gray cloudy days have put me in such a good mood. Ask me if they still do in January.

I'm so ready for the colors of fall too. I hope to have some pictures of the local apple orchards and leaves soon!

Until next time!