Category: Married Memories
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We Broke the Cardinal Rule!
For those of you soon-to-be home buyers, here is a short list of things you are about to hear: It always takes twice as long and costs twice as much. Bathrooms and Kitchen. That’s where you make your money back. There will always be a project Have you seen The Money Pit? One room at a time. You…
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Phase Two: Wallpaper Be Damned!
As you may have guessed by this post’s title, phase one is complete! We are very proud to announce that there is no remaining carpet in the upstairs of our house. In fact, we not only championed the carpet, Freddy also broke up all of the linoleum in the kitchen and one of the living…
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Phase One: Get rid of that carpet!
Oh, we have carpet. Starting out this morning, our carpet situation looked like this: Carpet in our bedroom, carpet in the guest bedroom, carpet in the third bedroom, carpet in the hallway, carpet in the dining room and kitchen, carpet in the bathrooms (Yes, we know. *shudder*)… Heck, it’s easier for me to tell you what wasn’t…
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Our New Chapter: Life as Home Owners
For first time home buyers, our house hunting process has been relatively quick. We fell in love in mid-July and closed in just over one month. We had the help of an amazing Realtor whom I would recommend to anyone looking to buy in the Grand Rapids area. (Her name is Marilyn Wagner and she…
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Books and Revelations and Such…
I finally finished reading The Me I Want to Be by John Ortberg. It was a wonderfully written book about following God’s calling for us as individuals and learning what that can look like for each person. It also took me incredibly too long to finish. Unfortunately, I am one of those obsessive readers who gets…
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Month in Review: July
July has proven to be an eventful month for us! We had that great, unplanned staycation at the beginning of the month while Freddy transitioned from his position at the Jazz club to his spot at the steakhouse, looked at handfuls and handfuls of houses, found one! Whoops. Yes, found one. A fixer-upper that melts…
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3 Houses: Maybe, Never, No Thank You
Freddy and I got back from our first house-hunting extravaganza this evening. It was short and sweet, I suppose. One of the houses we had listed to see went into “sale-pending” mode and came off our list and the other still has renters so it was unavailable for viewing at this time. That left us…
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Five Days of Fun
I have discovered a new rule for maintaining a successful marriage while working opposite schedules: Work for an awesome company. Today, I went into work excited for one day off in the middle of the week. Happy Independence Day, America! This morning, my boss tells me to take off some time to spend with Freddy. “There’s…
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Closet Break-Up
Well, it finally happened. After months of living together in our small apartment, we finally had the closet break-up. We tried to work it out. I gave him more space than I wanted to give. He gave me more space than he wanted to give. We let go of some things to make room for…
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