Newlywed Life

So, how is Newlywed life treating us? Wonderful! we are really happy now that we are married. No more major spiritual battles at this very moment. We are finally settling down and enjoying every day life together. Although, we don't have the bed we want as of yet, we are using two twin size beds pushed together. We are looking forward to a bed that will suite us a lot better. For now we are pretty much putting up with two different size comforters and odd old fashion sheets from back when your grandma lived.

We are thankful however to have a bed to sleep on at all and blankets to wrap up in at the end of the night. It's not exactly cozy but we make due. I will be glad for a bed all our own though with matching everything and a comforter to fit the bed. Newlywed life is like anything, "NEW" your new at just about everything! but yet, that is just half the fun of adventure. I can hardly believe at times that I am married. Married life for me feels so cozy and so comfortable. I really do like it and enjoy every part of it. I love our little cottage home here in the big city of San Diego. We get good weather here and the breeze through the window feels wonderful and relaxing while I am writing.

I love everything about Newlywed life. Of course we were friends, Garret and I for 4 and half years before we got married. We are like two peas in a pod we fit just perfectly together. Excuse me for a moment while I romance you with our perfect life's picture. We aren't rich or anything like that but when you have the Lord, well, your happy and content because of who God is. Garret goes to school full time and me, well, I've never to be honest worked a day in my life. You see, I took care of my Grandparents all my life and even though I had the freedom to work, I could not see leaving my mom to shoulder all the work on her own, day in and day out. So you see, I worked a nanny job throughout that time. Which I was very thankful for because it allowed me some time away from caregiving, which is what I needed from time to time and it gave me some income to have for myself.

It was God who gave us this house we have now. We are so thankful for this as well, we could not be more thankful. I really do enjoy it every day that we are living here. It does feel like a castle in the sky from time to time. Of course Garret and I live across the street from my parents house so we have the added blessing of having my brother visit most often as well as my parents to watch the new T.V series A.D the Bible. We are really experiencing the Lord every day that we are here and watching His hand do a mighty work in each of our lives. Sometimes God places us where He is moving or where He is stretching us in that place.

So here I am blogging this afternoon while my Husband is off to college doing his best work and I am keeping the household running. I have such a huge passion for being creative and also for baking. I have to admit to enjoying looking at all those wonderful ideas on Pinterest, I can't help myself but get lost in the whirl wind of all those fascinating ideas that I am just waiting to try out. I am really excited about all the many ways it encourages me to get in the kitchen and try my hand at so many of the yummy foods posted all over Pinterest. I have been pinning left and right.

I have to thank Pinterest for saving the day time and again, when I need ideas for a party. With Mother's Day coming up, I am already in the throws of putting together a really nice day for my mom, she totally deserves this day. After all celebrating a mother only comes once a year! Never take the year you have to celebrate mom for granted, right? Well, we are getting all geared up for that, and who knows, maybe we will even take a tiny road trip and have a lunch out near the mountains. Anyway, I am counting on an adventure. Before that, we have my Brother's Birthday coming up on the 6th of May. We are really excited about that, me especially, because you know wherever there is a party there will be cake! Speaking of cake maybe I will make my mom a cake for Mother's Day, after all what is another reason to enjoy the sweetness of life? So you see so far we have not stop celebrating since we got back from our wedding! And we still have yet to go on our Honeymoon! I am still! waiting for that.

Married life for us is a lot of fun, especially when you don't have a lot of money to run on all the time. This has taught me to have an appreciation for things that I had once taken for granted. I have learn the truest! gift of being thankful. Garret is especially great with finances, he knows all the inn's and outs of it all. Which is a great strength of his. So I have been more than thankful when a stick of real butter enters these doors. We have taken steps to becoming healthier and healthier along our married life path. We have made changes to eat whole wheat and Sour Dough breads. It took a lot of adjustments for me to accept eating anything other than white rice, I have just a love for the white rice, I really do. Of course, eating brown rice is much healthier and so we have determined ourselves not eat the white rice in our home.

 Trying to cook brown rice to begin with was a challenge. You can imagine, since we had both never tried to make it before, it was new to us both. Cooking brown rice, over a stove top was not exactly an award winning flavor. So! we got a nice! New! Rice Cooker! for a wedding gift from Bed Bath and Beyond! Best gift ever!!!! We have really been enjoying it. It made all the difference. Now I can truthfully say, I love! brown rice! Just some adjustments we have made in our married life. We couldn't afford an extra bottle of milk until here just recently so we were surviving on just one to two jugs of milk which is one of our favorite loves! We both love! milk and we love cereal! Before you go on your rant about how milk is not good for you, my Grandma drank it her whole life. It was her bone insurance. She never broke a bone in her life! It gave her long life and longevity. I am a witness to it! Now that I have gotten on this side rant! what I meant to share with you was that this milk has been a life savor for both of us. We are now drinking Keifer, it is added to our diets now and we are seeing amazing results! I am feeling ten times healthier. I have found that I do not! at all crave sugar and when I do, it is not as much as when I was not drinking it. When I am feeling that I am craving sugar I eat, a tomato! yep, yes, I do! I eat a tomato! The taste in the tomato tastes sweet and salty enough that it really satisfies my craving for something sweet and salty, side note, I sprinkle a little salt on my slices of tomato to give it that extra something that I am craving.

I will sometimes drink my Keifer with some toast with garlic salt sprinkled on top. Toast and Keifer are my one weakness. I truly enjoy it. For Dessert, Garret and I thoroughly enjoy Keifer, drizzled over frozen fruit and honey blended! It is a yummy treat! We just love every second of drinking it after dinner. Married life has been a journey of trying new things and switching old habits for new ones. learning how to eat healthier while living a well balanced life of also enjoying something's such as our cereals we aren't sure if we will stick to plain oats, for now we are slowly one at a time switching out not so great items for better ones in our married life. Every day is a new day and every day we make at least one good improvement made in our lives.

Sometimes we will even chose to eat Raquel Pop-corn, which is your basic pop-corn kernel popped in a pot over the stove, then sprinkled with salt, sugar, cinnamon, or garlic salt. Garlic salt is another staple in our lives because we love it so much. It seems to get sprinkled on almost everything from meat to grill cheese to toast, you name it we have probably sprinkled it on one of those items, so far. I had never had so much garlic salt in my life before getting married. Now that I am married, it's something that Garret has introduced me to.

Some how this whole Newlywed chapter of writing ended up being all about food, I wonder if that is because I naturally just gravitate towards my love for food? Or if it could just be because food seems to be one of the number one changes that have happen within our Newlywed life? Before Garret, I am not for one, a cook, that is all Garret, Garret is a chef so! It is he who has introduced me to the art and love of a variety of foods. It is like a dance, eating is like a romance. I am however a baker! I love to bake! I have such a love for baking, even though, my mother has always tried to get me in the kitchen, I have always been married to my writing.

Newlywed life has been a marinade of cooking and enjoying the adventures of new foods and my passion for baking while my husband is cooking in the kitchen. You could not! drag me away from my writing before Marriage, and now I am in front of the TV more often then not! watching everything food network! What a life! I am spending my days enjoying cooking shows while my husband becomes inspired. I feel like I am getting no where with this topic. I am sure your wondering where the drama is, especially since, Newlyweds seem to get the rap for some of the largest leg of journey being pure love, *bliss* if you will. While the other 50% of Newlyweds end up discovering the newly surprised issues that arise shortly after getting married that cause major conflicts! I know you going to really hate me for saying this but Garret and I have not had major world war 3 arguments that make the lights fall out of the ceiling, really. We might not agree on something from time to time but really we work all things out through, well, talking and talking some more. We are really used to talking and to be honest all he does makes me happy. Yup clothes get left on the ground but to be honest I leave my dirty clothes laying in the bathroom floor until I am ready to pick them up too, it's the case for doing something my Momma would have called me on. Now I can leave them there if I want to lol. I don't have any pet peeves of him, he doesn't snore, so that's not an issue.

If there has been anything that we have faced together and that we have learned it is that we would learn how to not just say we have faith, but to learn how to have faith within our hearts and believe for what we could not see. We have learn to stand on the Word of God like it is our bread and butter. It has been a life savor in our lives. We have learn the importance of not just reading the Bible but slowly working our way through a meal slowly, soaking up the material we are reading through. We have learn to be whole heartedly depended on the Lord rather than each other alone. That would be too much pressure to put on each other. Having God as our main man, our Father and the one we go to in our time of need serves as a such a blessing, because He is the strength shouldering the weight of the world and our life raft when we need one.

If there has been anything that we have faced that has caused conflict it would be simply like most of you family issues, but we have been working our way successfully through that area as well. Thanks to God who has helped us all mesh so well. Yes, it may seem like I am writing this oh so wonderful love story of lives. But really it has all been the Lord that has helped us win many of the challenges that we have faced and when all else fails there is always love, cuddles, kisses and a great movie and pop-corn. That's how we face the mountains we are climbing. As for our differences, I like crunchy Peanut Butter and Garret likes both smooth Peanut Butter and crunchy kind so there is not much difference there. He loves to cook, I love to bake. He likes playing video games, I can sympathize. Garret will usually shut down his night at around 9:00 I used to stay up late to write. Now I am up until 9:00 and up between 8:30-9:30. I used to be great at going to bed at 9:00 and waking up super early with him but what I discovered was that, I am not the happiest person getting up that early all the time, my body does not run on that clock as well as Garret's does. The one change I can say is I am no longer sleeping until 10:30 and heading down stairs at 11:00. Then again I was waiting to Skype with Garret at that time while we were apart. Now that is all changed.

Garret likes bacon, I love cake, but then again I love both and so does he. I could add that I love a good long bubble bath lol so relaxing while Garret mostly enjoys short fast in and out showers but there is not much of a difference there. Garret also has tattoos, he's a Veteran! So you can imagine they are both Patriotic and God fearing. He has a cross on one arm and wings on the other representing the two buddies that lost their lives while he was deployed. Something he forever carries within his heart. The fact that he has been deployed and is a solider sets us apart. I'm a women, he's a man, lol boy this is a challenge, honestly everything he is I love so I can't tell you that our differences really stand out as something is a big challenge for us. I have long hair he has sexy military hair! He is strong and compared to him, I couldn't pull him from a fire, I actually celebrate a small mound on my arm, that shows there is hidden strength within me. I'm in love what can I say? Even the things that make us different draw me to him.