• Posts Tagged ‘Married Life’

    The Story of Us

    by  • August 23, 2011 • Ramblings

    If you’re currently in a relationship how long have you been dating/married/etc? How did you meet? If you’re not what is your ideal relationship like and what do you look for in a s/o?

    James and I have been together for 5 1/2 years, and married for almost four (our anniversary is October 13). We met on MySpace on February 5, 2006. I was working 3rd shift at that time, so I was awake and bored around 5am that morning. I searched for people several miles away from my zip code just to see if I knew anyone that I hadn’t added. That’s when I came across James’ profile. He was really cute and sounded like a great person, so I messaged him. He happened to be awake at that time as well, and messaged me back. We moved to conversation to Yahoo Messenger.

    Over the next couple weeks, we talked off and on. It was difficult for us to find each other online because of our varying work schedules (he worked 2nd shift). On February 12, he kept mentioning he was hungry. I asked him if he wanted to meet up for dinner and he said yes. We had our first meeting at Dairy Queen later that afternoon. We officially became a couple on February 18, 2006, which is also when we went on our first date to Olive Garden and then to see Date Movie.

    My Free From Everything Day

    by  • June 4, 2011 • Ramblings

    Today was the first time in I am not sure when that I have been completely free of everything. Usually, when Sawyer goes to my mom’s, James is still home. About 75% of our baby free days/nights, we go out and do something, even if it’s just dinner, shopping, or riding around. The other 25% of that time, we hang out at home, watching movies, playing games, and other fun stuff. When James watches him to give me some free time, I either go out with my mom and/or sister, work, or clean. All that is fun or needs to be done.

    I feel like I never get *ME* time. I am not really complaining because I love my role as a stay at home wife and mom, but sometimes, it would be nice to get a break…not just from my baby either. I couldn’t tell you the last time that I have been free from all commitments…I honestly don’t think it’s been anytime since Sawyer has been born. James has gotten a little bit of free time while on his two business trips he’s taken this year. Granted he spends all of that time in a hotel room, but at least he has the option to go out and explore the location he’s at or just relax without dirty diapers, chores, and work.

    Last Friday, when I had to go pick up James from his business trip, I was alone for a few hours. My sister had taken Sawyer back with her to her house because he was staying the night there. However, I worked up until I had to get ready to pick him up so I didn’t really get to enjoy the alone time.

    Today, however, was awesome. James took Sawyer to visit with some of his family about 45 minutes away. No one was here but me. I had no work commitments that had to be done. So, from about 1:20pm until a little after 6:30pm, I did absolutely nothing…and it felt great! Well, I take that back. Most of the time was spent laying on the couch, laptop on my lap. I did get up and eat lunch exactly when I wanted, rather than when a certain little monkey was napping or playing happily in his play pen or highchair. It was only 5 hours, but it was SO nice!

    And now that we are back in reality, I have about 3 loads of laundry and a living room and kitchen that need to be cleaned!

    What a Wonderful Weekend

    by  • February 20, 2011 • Ramblings

    James and I had a wonderful weekend. Friday made 5 years that he and I have been together, so my mom wanted Sawyer for the weekend to give us some time to ourselves. He said with her from Friday afternoon until today, and I was a little nervous about being away from him that long when we dropped him off Friday. I was okay though, and of course, Sawyer was fine as well :P

    The baby-free weekend began when we went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse. I had the best steak I’ve ever had at a restaurant. It was cooked just right and there was absolutely no fat on it. The waiter said they had one of the best meat cutters in the city working there, and I can attest to that. After dinner, we went to a local used bookstore and spent $30 on Sawyer. We got him 10 books and Happy Feet on DVD. I love buying him books…I feel so much better spending it on something educational than on clothing or toys he doesn’t really need since he has plenty of each.

    We headed home after the bookstore and just relaxed in the living room. James played some Rock Band 3 while I played online. Saturday, I was up by 7:30am after going to bed about 2:30am the night before. There was absolutely no reason for me to be up that early, as I don’t even get up that early when Sawyer is home. It probably had something to do with being excited about the busy day we were going to have. We got ready and left for a 2 hour drive to a city just above Atlanta. Our first stop was to the Apple store to pick up my new iPhone. That took a little over an hour, but there was no problems with me using James’ annual upgrade. The only thing was they couldn’t get my contacts to transfer from my LG EnV3, so I had to manually add them. No biggie though.

    After getting the phone, James and I just drove around for a while. Neither of us had been to the city in a couple of years, so we just drove around and checked out the new stores that were there. Around 4:30pm, we headed to dinner at The Melting Pot. It was as delicious as always. I love that my husband isn’t a big fan of most seafood, as I got to have the lobster tail all to myself. We chose the Big Night Out, which gave us 4 fondue courses. The spinach and artichoke cheese fondue was so yummy. Then we got salads, which I just nibbled on a bit because I didn’t go to The Melting Pot for lettuce! The main course consisted of filet mignon, peppercorn steak, chicken, duck, lobster tail, and shrimp with broccoli and potatoes as the sides. We finished off dinner with the Flaming Turtle, which is milk chocolate, caramel, and pecans. YUM!! :happy:

    Today, James and I slept in until almost noon. My mom and sister brought Sawyer home a little after 1pm, and I was so happy to see my little monkey again. Not too much went on today, except I finished setting up my iPhone by putting all of my music and apps from my iPod Touch onto it. I gave my mom my iPod Touch, as she’s become quite addicted to a few apps on my sister’s. We also ventured to Wal-Mart for groceries, had spaghetti for supper, and bathed the baby and put him to bed. Now we’re about to make Sawyer some homemade baby food! He turned 5 months old today, so I’ll be writing a letter to him tomorrow!