Marriage

Dating on a Budget Even though you are now married, the importance of still dating your spouse is huge, however most newly married couples find that they are on a budget.  One of the biggest things my newly married brides have told me they struggled with was how to date while still sticking to a […]

Combining Christmas Traditions I love Christmas traditions, and the highly anticipated rituals that come every year.  Whether it was savoring the turkey at Christmas dinner or playing board games with cousins while stories are swamped, I cherish all of it.  As a newly married wife, the first few years of marriage meant navigating Christmas traditions from […]

Smells Like Home I remember as a child going over to my grandparents home and it had this sort of bookstore smell mixed with the scent of just baked cookies.  It felt warm and inviting like a big fluffy blanket.  In college, I vividly recall the walking through the door to the smell of scratch made lasagna and […]

  A Christmas Gift Dilemma It started the first year we were married, or even maybe before that.  I would always have a dilemma over what to buy Jason for Christmas.  It wasn’t because he is hard to shop for but that he would just go out and purchase without fail, the one thing I […]

Here’s to the Newly Married Life If you have been reading this blog for awhile, then you know that I was not the picture of domesticity when we first got married.  I could cook three dishes well and most of them were breakfast items.  Menu planning was a joke along with the whole concept of […]