Celebrating Our 5 Month Anniversary

Surviving 5 months of marriage is indeed a big deal. We've gotten past our
dramatic wedding, at least mostly, we're making progress with the in-law issues ...meaning we're establishing our life here in Texas seperate from them... 1400 miles is nice, we're done fighting over closet space and who does what chores (the normal living together adjustments), and my husband is maturing and growing into the man he's meant to be while I'm back to feeling and done with being numb in the face of all the drama. What started out a marriage on the rocks (who else starts that way?) has now turned into a happily married state of ... well, not bliss... but a happy reality.

We began our 5 month anniversary with Joshua going to work (he's a substitute teacher) and me at home working on my new writing job (writing for IQrious.com) and working on my church calling as food storage specialist (not so fun, let me tell you!). I was frustrated with my work and needing a break so I turned to my container garden. We had recently purchased new containers and potting soil since my plants have gone crazy and it's time to expand. I repotted the tomatoes and planted my new blueberry plants while I waited for my husband to come home. When he arrived the first thing we did (other than hug and kiss each other) was gathering some plastic bags, a couple of small shovels, and we embarked on our adventure to steal... um... I mean "collect" dirt. We bought large containers to move the baby watermelons and the cucumbers into, but looking at how deep they were it made sense to fill the bottom with miscellaneous "free" dirt then fill the remaining 3/4 with potting soil (broke newlyweds for ya). So that's what we did, we walked along a side road until we found a muddy spot and began filling a few grocery bags with dirt. We had a blast! My husband had fun discovering new bugs here in Texas, digging in the mud is simply fun as it is, and we got to enjoy the blooming honeysuckle, as well as my husband picking a pretty purple flower for me which he put in my hair :-)

Truth is, no one cared that we were walking around with bags of dirt. We returned home and together prepared the containers for my plants. While I transplanted my young vegetation, Joshua decided to clean out his car in preparation for our date. Did I forget to mention that for the first time in a long time he offically asked me out on a date like he would do when we were first dating? It was sweet :-)

We had a coupon for a $5.99 pizza at Papa Johns. We drove the mere mile and ordered our pizza. Then we ventured over to Walgreens to buy generic sodas. Since we had a few minutes to wait until our pizza would be ready, we decided to stop by the candy isle. For some reason, kissing in the candy isle is still as fun as it was when we were just boyfriend and girlfriend ;-) It's good to be romantic.

We picked up our pizza and began to walk over to our favorite bench in the Town Center shopping area. We love to sit out in the dark, after normal business hours, under the trees, in this lovely shopping area to eat together and enjoy each other's company. As we arrived at our bench I was just about to turn around and sit, when to my horror I realized those spots on the bench were not weather related, they moved! As our eyes had adjusted to the darker setting we beheld the dozens of caterpillars crawling all over the bench. And these weren't just any caterpillars, they were asps which are venomous! It was like a scene from a bad scary movie! We walked over to another bench only to find it too was covered in these menacing insects. We realized they were coming from the trees and were taking over the Town Center. We quickly decided we wanted nothing to do with these dangerous pests and walked back to the car. The whole walk back we were disturbed by how we kept finding these asps on the sides of buildings, on trees, on signs, everywhere! We made it back to the car and decided to finish off our date by driving over to another shopping center along Lake Houston that is barren on Monday nights. We happily stayed in the car safe from the dangers lurking outside.

Overall, we spent our 5 month anniversary digging dirt and being chased off by caterpillers. Yep, sounds like a typical date for us, haha ;-)