Archive for the ‘Relationships’ Category

Your Money Friday: Keeping Down with the Joneses


16 Mar

This thread asks: Would you avoid spending money in order to not feel like a show off to friends, family, neighbors who are currently struggling? And if so, is there a difference between buying a new gadget that can be hidden away and renovating your kitchen, which is glaringly obvious?

I understand both sides of the argument, though I do not think we temper our spending based on what others might think. We save for what we need and then go buy it.

But our friends have always had diverse financial situations so it’s something we’re already used to navigating.

Pet Custody Battles (and bad reporting)


29 Feb

I have no doubt that custody disputes involving pets are on the rise. It makes sense to me. What does not make sense to me is the argument that the increase is due to “breakups in same-sex marriages, civil unions and domestic partnerships”.

Breakups have always happened between people living together but not married. Maybe because now that there’s actual legal status to these relationships, causing lawyers to be involved, lawyers think the fights are more common

Still better arguments are that more people own pets, and the way pets are viewed in society is changing from property to family.

Merry Christmas


25 Dec

Was your household up early this morning, with kids running circles around the tree, excited by what Santa had brought them? Is your house filled with friends and family and a big dinner? Is it just another day? I’m curious.

There aren’t kids in our lives. We sleep late- not too late, though, because friends come over for Christmas dinner, around 2pm. We’ll open the presents sent by my family, and empty the stockings. (Nothing in the stockings will be a surprise for me because I’m the one who stuffs them.)

It will be relaxing, and it will be good.

Being Thankful 2011


24 Nov

Today I am thankful for the home I have made with my loving husband. I am thankful for our friends, also known as the family we choose, who bless our home with their presence. I am thankful for the food we have to share and the memories we create.

Life sometimes moves too fast, and it’s nice to slow down every once in a while and look around, to take a moment to smell the roses, as it were.

I said it last year, and I’ll say it again. 100 words isn’t really enough, but it will have to do.

A Working Vacation


03 Sep

I have been on vacation, but doing fairly well with keeping the daily posts up until today. Sorry about that.

My mom is here, and with her help we have been cleaning the house and doing yard work, lots and lots of yard work. (The fight against the blackberries is never ending.)

She also bought us a new love seat, so the living room has been rearranged.

She goes home this afternoon, so I’ll get a couple days left of the weekend to relax, but its been good having her here. And my house and yard really do look better.

Happy Anniversary


30 Aug

Today marks 8 years of marriage for my husband and I. It honestly doesn’t feel that long. Sometimes I wonder where the time went, but I can account for it all if I think about it. 100 words isn’t a lot, but its enough to say, I love you. I can’t imagine these last 8 years (11 really) without you in my life. I wouldn’t trade them for anything.
Talking with K about “home” the other day, I made the comment that at some point, I hope she found what I have. Home isn’t a place. It’s where you are.

Friendship


17 Aug

Friendships require work. This seems counterintuitive to everything I learned about friendship as a child. As a kid, you saw our friends every day at school or around the neighborhood. Friendship was something you fell into.

Adults don’t make friends as easily. They take time and effort- time to spend together, effort to get to know one another, to figure out where you fit in each other’s lives.

It feels exhausting. And yet, for me, at least, after an evening spent with a friend, life always seems so much better than it was that morning. Friendship is still worth it.

A Change in Roles


02 Aug

This morning, I dropped my husband off at the airport. He’ll be gone for a week. In our 8 year marriage, this is only the second time he’s been the one to go somewhere.

I travel without him not exactly frequently, but once or twice a year. He hates to travel and is rarely willing to go places with me, let alone without me. In this case, he’s working a convention for a friend’s company, so its not quite pleasure travel,

But it does upend our status quo. And for once, I’m the one left home alone with the dogs.

Happy Birthday to my Husband


27 Jun

I should save the gushy romantic stuff for our anniversary. But today is my husband’s birthday. I just want to let him know how much I love him, and that even though I pick on him, and even mock him sometimes, I could not imagine being happier.

He just started back in school part time in January, and full time just last week. He’s studying Linear Algebra over 5 weeks, so we won’t have much time to celebrate tomorrow, but I made cookies.

Sweetheart, I love you. I am proud of you, and I look forward to many more birthdays.

Happy Father’s Day


19 Jun

 

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there, but especially to my father. I know I don’t call, or even email, as often as I should/ you would like, but I do love you.

My father once made my neice an adorable play house out of boxes from his new washer and dryer. He felt bad that he’d never been able to do that for me. I almost rolled my eyes. He built a fort in our back yard with a tire bridge and converted our barn to a playhouse. Who needed boxes? I always knew I was loved.

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