Love is in the Air...

Did you ever wonder why so many people get engaged over the holidays? Whether it be on Christmas eve, Christmas day, or New Years Eve or New Years Day…..Yes, I personally got engaged over the holidays, but it was special to me not because it was Christmas time, but because my (current) husband made it special by telling me how he waited until midnight on the day we started dating one year ago. That made it so much more special then the whole, oh it’s christmas, perfect time to get engaged part. I also especially like the way it happened because it just fit us. Our non-perfect, non-fancy, take it as it comes lifestyles. While he did probably think it was nerveracking and maybe even rude I made him wait until after Will and Grace was done, and while I thought I was extremely inconsiderate (after I found out what was happening) we both got a good laugh out of it, and I’m sure our kids and grandkids will some day laugh at that story as well.

Back to my main point about this random blog….Is there a real reason everyone chooses the same time of the year pretty much to get engaged??? Maybe because all your family is together? Perhaps it’s so you can be the center of attention during the entire holiday, or maybe, just maybe your significant other finally realized they loved you so much that they couldn’t wait one single day more to ask you to be with them till the end.

The year of the wedding was very hectic. We spent all year and a half planning little wedding details and big wedding details. But I have to say the year after our wedding was far more hectic the year before; and we thought things would settle after the new year…who were we kidding. We moved into our super nice, super roomy apartment, and bought two new puppies who I couldn’t imagine spending one day without now. We got pregnant, lost our baby, mourned together…and started to pick up the pieces of something that in my opinion hurt more than I ever imagined it would. We made it through the holiday parties, fantasy football, and all our family and friend get togethers. Things are finally starting to settle down. I look at our life together now and things are calm, simplistic, and at times even boring. We're living our life one day at a time, completing the mundane tasks we force ourselves to do such as let the dogs out, clean, do laundry, and go to the grocery store. Our biggest upcoming event in our lives right now is vacation. We have no immediate plans to make any drastic changes with our lives, no additional major career moves in the foreseeable future, and the addition of more pets is out of the question unless we move to a bigger place with our own yard, which probably won’t be happening THAT soon. Basically, this is it. For now. And to tell you the truth? I love it. It's minimal stress with maximum happiness. This is life after the wedding and I kind of like it. Wait, no, I LOVE it. Oh sure we bicker about the little stuff, like who's the bigger slackass around the house, but that's typical. Most of the time, there's a lot of butt pinching and ssf’s being tossed about because we're young and sometimes immature, because we still think bodily functions are gross yet funny at the same time. Sometimes we talk politics and other "grown up" speak, and sometimes I'm laughing at him while he sings around the apartment. We're the best of friends and I couldn't have found a better match.So to those of you who are newly engaged or newly married, take note and know that there's something to look forward to. A lot of somethings, actually.