The other night while out at an event a few friends and I got into a discussion about marriage. The question posed was this: “What will you tell your daughter, marry for love or marry for money?” Well, I blurted out love. Actually it went more like this, Love(!) of course(!). I married for love. [...]
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5 Comments »Almost two weeks ago while giving Maddy a bath I looked down while washing her hair and realized my wedding ring was not on my finger. I would like to say I kept my calm and finished up Maddy’s bath before beginning my search for it. The real story was less flattering. I frantically starting [...]
Posted in Catherine Evolving, Life, Pure Catherine Tags: anniversary, love, Luke, marriage, wedding 5 Comments »Five Years ago today, I was starting a new chapter in my life. A chapter with the title of Mrs. instead of Miss. Two nights ago I stood in the card aisle at Target reading each and every “anniversary,” “romance,” and “love” card they had. My eyes were teary. Somehow every card exactly described my [...]
After being married for nearly 5 years, Luke and I have fallen into a lovely routine. For example, I cook and he does the dishes. I schedule our social calender and he lets me schedule our social calendar. For how wonderful this all is there are things that drive me a bit cray sometimes, for [...]
I awoke to silence this morning. Total silence. The kind of silence that reminded that I was all alone in my house. I have never spent the night alone in my house. Never. I have had nights with just Luke. I have had nights with just Maddy. Never a night on my own. This sort [...]
Posted in Motherhood & Parenting, Pure Catherine Tags: growth, marriage, Me, Motherhood & Parenting, My evolution, sharing me 6 Comments »There is an interesting fundamental difference between my husband and me. It is pretty accurately illustrated in the following pictures of the schedule we have been trying to put together to make sure that we both get our time to work out. Here is the schedule that Luke first wrote up: and here is the [...]
Posted in Catherine Evolving, Pure Catherine Tags: love, Luke, marriage, Me, we are brilliant No Comments »Yesterday I asked the question if there was a difference between Only and Single when it came to parenting. In other words if your spouse takes care of the family financially and you do everything else is it fair to compare yourself to a single parent, even though you never have to worry about contributing [...]
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