#ryan

People have said that the first year is the hardest, or that learning to live together was hard. Our first years have been easy, and living with him is a joy. I'm so grateful for how good we have it. He's always willing to listen, he never judges me when I cry over absolutely nothing,…

One more night in my own bed with my husband, in our apartment, cuddled up on our mattress (our first big non-wedding related purchase together), with Svetlana on the chair in the corner and today's reason I love him on the nightstand. Yesterday was perfect. Today was lovely. June 24th is going t...

Happy Vamlumtime's Day to the love of my life. I'm sorry I didn't get home until 9:30 this evening. Thank you for bringing me dinner while I was at work, for giving me the good parking spot, for walking out to check the mail with me, and for making ridiculous faces & dancing along while…

It's hard to write frequently when nothing much really happens in my life. We live a quiet life. Ryan goes to work in the morning; I laze around the house all morning. I go to work in the afternoon and Ryan gets home hours before I do. We see each other in the evening, and…

This for you, for both of you, a small poem of happiness filled with small glories and little triumphs a fragile, short cheerful song filled with hope and all sorts of futures Because at weddings we imagine the future Because it’s all about “what happened next?” all the work and negotiation and b...

My morning was full of penduin huds & sleepy tuddles & scratchy tisses & other happy things that exist only in our secret world where we speak our own language. When I was young, I tried so many times to make my own imaginary world, but it was never as much fun as it should…

How is this not where I want to get married? He is standing about where we will, right in front of that window. And we will walk right down and out those doors as a married couple.Not going to lie, standing there made me a little teary.

One, to get this out of the way: on July 3rd (almost a month ago, I'm sorry I got so behind!), I turned 21! I hadn't ever drank in the States before (I had a couple sips in London and I had one drink in Japan), but I had a good time! I discovered that…

“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.” -- Eleanora Duse Drove home, watched KU lose to Mizzou in a…