Obviously I am not much of a blogger, but Saturday marks six months of marriage with Bryce and I just wanted to share a little bit of our story. It all began with the very smooth line, "Hey I like your glasses". What could I say I was smitten. I do have to be honest and say it was not all rainbows and butterflies from there. Neither one of us was really willing to commit to the other. Whenever anybody asked me about him, I would simply reply Bryce is my friend. It seems like Bryce went from just my friend to my husband. If I am honest, that is probably exactly what happened. As my husband however, he has turned into my very best friend.
I would have to say that the first month of marriage was the most difficult. As we were both used to living and being on our own, coming together as one was a little bit of a transition. You always hear that being married to a doctor, or lawyer is difficult because of the amount of hours they put into their work. I guess I did not expect it would be similar to be the wife of a swim coach. Okay so probably not really. But he does not get home until 8 or later and he sometimes has swim meets during the weekends. I love that my husband is a coach. He is so passionate about what he does, which is one of things that I love most about Bryce. So we just had to figure out how to enhance the quality of our time!
When we first got married we had two separate lives. He was coach, and I was a kindergarten teacher. I would get home around 6pm and start on dinner. I did not know how to cook, still do not, but I had access to the internet. Yes in the beginning it would take about 2 hours to cook a simple meal for my husband and I. He would come home and we would enjoy our meal together. Side note- he is the number one fan of my cooking, because he says I cook with love... so true! Anyway we would enjoy our meal, and then get cozy on the couch and watch a movie or a show. At 10:30pm we would go to bed. This was our pattern. This was a recipe for our difficult first month of marriage.
How did we enhance the quality of our time? Well this is something we are still working on, but is constantly progressing. We eat dinner at the table, to give us more time to talk without distractions. Great move. We still do enjoy watching shows and movies, but we try not to spend all our time watching T.V. We have added playing games, working out, cleaning, going out with the missionaries, and the list goes on of things we enjoy doing together. Variety is good for us. Enhancing our quality of time has been good for us, but I do have to admit what has strengthen our marriage is that both Bryce and I strive to be the best we can be.
I cannot speak for Bryce, so I will speak for myself. Bryce has been nothing but supportive of me. He is constantly cheering me on, in whatever I choose to do or become. This makes me want to be better. The more he does for me, the more I appreciate him and want to be better. I feel like it does the same for him. So the outcome is both of us striving to be better for the other, which strengthens our marriage. I am not sure if this makes sense out loud, but it does for me and I guess that is all that really matters.
Well I hope whoever reads this post enjoys it! I am planning on writing more posts about some of my passions and projects in later posts ;)
