Blissfully becoming

Being and becoming a wife begins with a crock pot, that's right. LOL!

When people make the remark "marriage changes everything", it sounds so dreadful that it seems to reinforce the idea that you are getting divorced before you even consider getting a someone to say I do to. My experience; I know.... I have been married only a month, but still, I believe being married has made me a better person. I think differently now, but in a good way.

For instance, I want to take better care of us. I have a deeper desire to cook, to nurture. I would've never dreamed of owning one of these domesticated items (not necessarily true, I know) but now I love it and I am eager to cook all my meals in that giant hunk of ceramic and stainless steel! Forget that damn oven!

Getting groceries has taken on a whole new meaning for us too, for the last 5 years, just living together, groceries consisted of dried apricots, hot sauce and chips, and olives for the martinis. Now I stop by the meat counter and buy big hunks of meat learning by trial and error the difference between a good roast and a bad fatty roast. I am buying whole chickens (organic, of course) also great for crock pot cooking. I have been making things like mashed potatoes, and green beans. I am turning into my mother- oh god, that is so scary.

Another thing that I like about being a wife is I feel more confident at parties and outings. Girlfriend, in my opinion, says I am still a girl and a friend which is a great start to build and grow on but if the relationship is to last it should, and it did, for me, mature into marriage. I must say it is creating a whole new level of growth and I like it a lot! Life is such an experience of emotions and feelings that will forever shift and change...the beauty of living and growing older and having a loved one to share and grow with makes it all so much more worth the while.

I am more in love with life than I have ever been....I thank god for the man who was just texting me NO drunkblogging Katie!!! Ha!

Next, I'll be thinking kids, NOT!!! :0)

A Bigger Beginning

I know you all have been anxiously awaiting for some descriptions of the grand event.

We got side-tracked while winding our way up the coast to our appt in Blue Hill, Maine to get our marriage license; Robert forgot his divorce decree. Oh shit!!! What the hell do we do? Well, we tried numerous tactics like, for instance, sending our friend in Texas over to Robert's office to try and find it amongst his files and when that didn't work we called another friend who can usually find out why, who and when someone got divorced on the internet but that fell through too, so we just lied! And that my friends worked like a charm. :0)

Our friends in Maine planned a very romantic little trip by sailboat across the bay to a grand estate, where we said the I dos on a hilltop overlooking the ocean. They set up a nice little buffet of flowers, champagne, seafood and an old gramophone playing Russian songs from the 40's. We waltzed right into married life so sweetly.

Two days later after being wined and dined by our host we had to say our I dos again, only this time officially by the D.A. of Ellsworth. I got all dolled up again in my fabulous dress and walked onto the gazebo where we were to meet our guy and noticed we were surrounded by a group of very special people who happened to be out on a field trip. Some had Down's Syndrome and some where just mentally challenged but they were so excited to be a part of our ceremony.

All in all it was a fabulous trip and both weddings were wonderful in their own unique way.