Well, we’ve only been married one month (today), and Josh is leaving me. I guess things are so bad he has to run away to a different country. Actually, I shouldn’t even joke about that. Josh and I promised each other before marrying to never talk about the “D” word (divorce), even in jest. It isn’t an option and shouldn’t be in our married vocabulary. Nonetheless, he is still leaving me – going to Peru with our church’s youth pastor to prepare for a student mission trip this summer. Three days without him. I’m not sure if I’ll make it!
“So, how’s married life?” is the big question we hear over and over nowadays. “It’s wonderful! . . .” Or “It’s amazing! . . . all [fill in blank with number] weeks of it” is my standard reply. I don’t keep count of the days we’ve been married the way I kept count of the days until the wedding. (It’s just the bride thing to do.) But I did log into theknot.com the other day to get addresses for thank you notes. I noticed that instead of counting down to the wedding like it did before March 19th, it now informed me that I’d been married for 25 days. “That’s pretty neat. I wonder how long it will count after the wedding . . . forever?” I wondered. I started doing some math, and thought I would share it with all of you. When you’ve been married one year, it’s 365 days, of course. But did you know . . .
5 years = 1,825 days
10 years = 3,650 days
25 years = 9,125 days
50 years = 18, 250 days
*leap years not factored
Both Josh and my parents will have been married for 27 years this summer, which is 9,855 days. That is just amazing to me. Wow, thank you, parents, for setting such a great example for us!
People also ask us if we’ve learned anything new or crazy about each other that we didn’t know before being married. Josh and I were talking about this the other night. I can honestly say not really. So far my expectations of marriage were pretty accurate (except it’s even better than I imagined, of course!). But I was expecting to never have a made-up bed, to always be picking up someone’s shoes, and to have double the laundry after saying “I do.” I told Josh this and he said, “Really?! I feel like there are a lot of things I’ve learned about you over this past month.” I was a little scared. “Like what?” I asked. “After four years of dating, I had no idea you loved the movie Men In Black!!” I never knew I was so mysterious. :) Ahhh, married life. It’s the best.
One month down . . . thank you notes are all finished and mailed! Hooray! (So sorry if you didn’t get one for some reason. Please let me know and I will be sure to send you one.) The wedding gifts are all put away (just don’t open our closet!). I’m applying to jobs in New Orleans, please be praying. No job; no seminary. I’m trusting God to put me in just the right school.
Thanks for checking in on us. Stay tuned for the big move. We love you all! I plan on updating the blog about once a month (unless something crazy happens!). One month down . . . 12 zillion more to go!
