Ten Months as a MRS

I just realized I missed our 9th month update. Life was nuts.

The Wonderful Things:

• We have gotten some spring days! but they are few and far between.
• My husband brought home two movies this past month for me (which we NEVER, or rarely hardly ever buy movies, mostly because we Netflix 99% of our movies or borrow from friends) and he got me the new Hunger Games movie and Frozen (LOVE THEM BOTH)
• We are making some serious progress on the basement. We insulated the basement ourselves and we don't hate each other like everyone told us we would. I would dare to say we even had fun doing it. We like doing projects that are within our abilities, we know when to call in a professional. We aren't above hiring someone else to do pieces of it.
• We went to Chanhassen Dinner Theater's version of The Little Mermaid, soooo wonderful
• We both had birthdays (Marc's is 4/3 and mine is 4/5)
• Our chickens have been shipped and should arrive tomorrow or Thursday - you have been warned that there will be a chick explosion on my page
• Marc has really gotten into woodworking/building things (he built our chicken coop) and it has been really fun to watch his skills develop and some of the fun stuff that he has built 
• once the weather gets nice and he can be out in the garage a little bit more I imagine he will be even more happy to be out there and it will be more fun to hang out there with him, I don't love hanging out in the cold 

The Things No One Ever Tells You About:

• It is hard to make decisions about how you are going to finish off your basement. Certain things I just don't know what to choose (yes, I know, first world problems) 
• which tub/shower to pick shouldn't be this hard
• which color of off white you want your primer to be really doesn't matter
• When boys are sick the world ends (I know I have had this one before, but seriously)
• I know being sick sucks and actually he did much better this time than before but still when boys get sick the world ends
• How amazingly wonderful it is when for a few hours you are totally caught up on all of your laundry, washed, dried, folded, and put away
• really I just feel wonderful whenever my house is totally clean
• Marc really is pretty good at helping with keeping our house clean 
• he really really really likes to vacuum, seriously, and takes it upon himself to vacuum up golden retriever about every other day - I will happily scrub the bathrooms to not have to do golden retriever every other day

The Miscellaneous Things:

• I still wish my family lived closer
• I am jazzed our basement is coming together, it will be AWESOME when it is finished.
• I am excited for Easter
• The camp I help to co-manage almost has a full summer calendar and that makes my heart happy because now we don't have to fret about meeting budget and what not

Three Months as a Mrs.

The Wonderful Things:

• This month has been wonderful because I have actually been home for most of it! While away we have learned the joys of communication and doing our best but it just isn't the same as being home - not to forget when I was in SD for one trip I didn't even have cell service
• Dakota is over the top in love with having the two of us in the house - double the people to pet her and to let her roam wherever she wants - she has Marc trained to share his food at lunch and dinner
• Summer is WONDERFUL - we have been loving camping, swimming, biking, and running outside - our goal is to be outside as much as possible

The Things No One Warns You About:

• the process of changing your name still sucks - I know it just takes time but I had no clue how much stuff my name was on
• every once in a while when I am caught off guard and go to introduce myself I still use my maiden name out of habit
• scheduling things is hard with two people - we have two schedules to blend together - some days it flows easily and other days it makes me want to scream
• I am not in love with the process of selling our house - however I totally look forward to a new house

The Miscellaneous Things:

• selling your house is stressful (yes, I know everyone already knows this I am just reconfirming it)
• it always has to be clean
• you always wonder if it is going to sell (which my luck it won't sell until next spring)
• you always are eyeing houses online thinking that it would be fun to see and potentially live in
• it's annoying to have to be out of your house for periods of time
• I am getting more and more jazzed for Wicked (Oct. 5) - should be a wonderful weekend
• we dropped cable tv and we have netflix - we LOVE IT - we watch way less tv and when we do there are PLENTY of tv shows on netflix
• we love that we don't have to watch commercials
• we love that we get to watch movies without having to go to the movie place and rent them or hope that the redbox has what we want
• we love that we can watch part of a movie or tv show on instant streaming and if we don't finish it netflix saves where we are in the movie and will restart it at that point
• we also love that it gives us suggestions based off of other things that we have watched - we have found many a good movie off of netflix suggestions that we otherwise wouldn't have watched