A new post for a new year

Ok, so this is my first post on this blog and it's incredibly late, I know. But, here I am. So, here's what's going on in Phoenix.

We have been married for over 7 months now. My wedding day was the perfect event I dreamt about since I was a little girl. The honeymoon was as magical as I had hoped. A huge thanks to my parents for sending us to my dream-land, Italy. Now, if I am to be truthful, I have to admit that there have been a few days when it was hard. I used to clean the house for my mom, partly because I liked surprising her and partly because it made me feel all grown up. This summer, I had a hard time figuring out what it means to be a housewife. I think the hardest part of it was that most of my friends were gone for the summer. So, I would clean the house and do the laundry and cook until Ben came home from work. And, honestly, I didn't like it all that much. It was even harder to realize that after anticipating my husband's return, I had to let him rest and sometimes even let him be alone. After all, he had been working all day. There was also the stress of cooking for Ben when I had hardly cooked more than a few meals in all my life. Then I felt (and sometimes still do) this pressure to do things just like his mom. All of this was added to the great big fact that I was living with a boy...

I won't say that all of these pressures and worries are completely gone but they are very close. I find myself looking at my husband and still wondering how we made it. It was just a year or two ago that I would wonder why I had to wait to marry this knight in shining armor. He is everything I have wanted in a man and we work so well together. I love him like I have never loved anyone. All I wanted was the security that we would be together for the rest of our lives. God granted me that request and it still amazes me. I would go through 100 of the hard days to have just one of the great days with Ben.

It is so wonderful to have a big strong man to get the spiders and make me feel safe in the dark of the night. It is the most encouraging thing to have a husband who will challenge me to do hard things and have the pride and faith in me that gives me the courage to do them. I can't even tell you how happy I am to be married to Ben.

We are in the process of moving. We are still on GCU campus, just in a slightly bigger apartment. We now have two bedrooms, one of which will serve as office and art room. Ben is hoping to work at a hospital soon and I will start working at Surrey Garden on Friday. Well, that's the news from Phoenix. Hopefully, we'll be posting more consistently this year...we'll see.