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)
3 comments:
Mashed potatoes and green beans? That makes me laugh - I really don't know why, but it does. I love this, I love the fact that the changes you feel are all positive - everyone is so adamant about how marriage will change the relationship for the worst, not the better; it is nice to hear someone say not for me. They've just been choosing the wrong people all these years.
And organic chicken? Wow. Robert is a lucky man.
:) Debi
Oh wow, Katie Langham. A crock pot? Really? I'm so loving that you love marriage and that I don't feel the need for it any more. What a switch? Want my crock pot, too?
Debi, & Sheila, I am so done with the crock pot...it was just a wifely phase that lasted for a minute so Robert WAS a lucky man....I was trying for a week to be like my mother but it's too much work to cook, even in a crock pot! Plus the crock pot I have leaves a weird taste in the food.
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