Sunday Citar: Celebrating One Year

"I have found the one whom my soul loves." Song of Solomon 3:4

   Our first year anniversary happened to fall on a Monday this year. So we decided to celebrate the Friday before. But before I talk about our night let me give you a little bit of back story of events that took place. Tim's parents were nice enough to keep our cake topper in their freezer and then ship it down to us. We thought it would be ok, apparently Fed Ex ships items like that all the time. They put dry ice in there to keep it cold. The wed. before our celebration our cake arrived. We opened it to find the cake almost completely destroyed. All of the icing had fallen off, and some of the actual cake had come apart as well. As you can imagine I was quite upset, and many tears fell.
So, what did my knight in shining armor do? He printed out a picture of the cake from our wedding and ran around trying to find someone to make a replica, with success! Of course I still wished our actual cake wasn't ruined but I appreciated it and I was happy to have something nice for our celebration. We decided to use our new cake for the night we went out, and still enjoy some of our old cake for our actual anniversary.
 We decided to spend a night in downtown Atlanta, and just go to a nice dinner. We didn't want to spend a lot of money but wanted to do something nice. Tim had enough points that we could get a nice room for FREE at the Hyatt so that's what we did. I loved our view! For dinner we went to a place called Peasant Bistro. We were both able to have our favorite dishes, mine was lamb and his was duck. Sadly, I forgot to have a picture taken of us at dinner but that's ok, I will always remember it.

  After dinner we went back to our hotel room to enjoy our cake (as you can see the ladies did an amazing job!) and some wine & cheese that the hotel sent up as a congratulations. It was so nice to have a night out. We felt as though we went on a trip somewhere far even though it was only a twenty minute drive.
One of the best parts? The king size bed! I don't get very much room in our own, especially with Jet always being cuddled up next to me. It was SO nice being able to spread out as much as I wanted.
And of course we shared a kiss or two, and cuddled up together to talk about the past year. It was a great night that I will always remember.

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PinTip: Swiffer!

   I've become addicted to Pinterest. I'm on it all of the time, looking at cleaning tips, crafts for kids, DIY, etc etc. A lot of times I will come across a pin and wonder if it actually works, I'm sure I'm not the only one that goes through that; so I thought I would share which ones work and which ones don't as I try them.

Last fall Tim and I moved into a new apartment, it has wood floors which of course I LOVE. However, every bit of dirt and fur shows up and looks ten times worse than it would on carpet. One of the first items we bought was a Swiffer. It worked great, I did/do however have to Swiffer every other day (ah the joys of having a dog) so naturally I would go through a lot of the Swiffer wipes and at $8.00 a box the money spent can add up fast.

One day on Pinterest I came across a pin that suggested making a reusable Swiffer cloth by crocheting. I happen to have pot holders that I never use so one day I just attached one to the Swiffer and it worked great!

As you can see (I know gross) it works just as well if not better than Swiffer wipes! It's a great money saver, and all I have to do when one is too dirty is switch it out with another one and wash it with other cleaning cloths or towels. I know we've easily saved over $20 over the past few months if not more! 

One Year Later

.... And a couple weeks late. I've been meaning to blog the past couple weeks but I have been busy looking for a family to Nanny for & going to interviews. It's been a year now since I married my other half and it has been a great one! It's crazy how fast the year flew by. I feel like it was the day before yesterday that I was proposed to, and yesterday was the day of our wedding.

In the months leading up to our wedding I had person after person telling me that marriage is work. It was like a broken record, sometimes I even felt as though they were saying "Hey marriage isn't fun or enjoyable it's just work." But I have to say this year has been a lot of fun and a lot of enjoyment. Yes we both had to make adjustments, and we had to get used to each others little quirks that we may have found annoying; we just make sure to communicate.

I don't think it's just luck that we've had a great year, and I know there may be other years that may be a little tougher but I know we can meet them head on. Here are my reasons why I know we had such an enjoyable, fun, successful first year, and what I know we need to always do or not do in the future...

#1. Put God first! Any time that we weren't putting God first there would be a strain that would begin to develop. We would have small arguments here and there. Once we realized that the reason was because God wasn't first we would pray, and make sure to bring him back to the center.

#2. Communicate! It does so much more hurt for a relationship if you are not properly communicating. There was a time here and there in the beginning when something would be bothering me, if I didn't communicate that with Tim then it only made things worse. More than half of the time after I told him what was bothering me I would find out that I just misunderstood and had no reason to be upset. The other half of the time we would talk through the issue at hand, there was no name calling, or words that were said to purposely hurt the other person.

#3. Be willing to change some habits! This involves communication as well. When Tim and I are annoyed by something the other person does we tell each other. For example, Tim would leave his shoes right in front of the doorway so when I would come home I would end up tripping over them (something that could even be deadly for a person as clumsy as me). So, I asked him to please move them off to the side because it was really annoying (and hurt sometimes) to be tripping over them all of the time. And you know what? He began moving them off to the side. I have the habit of leaving clothes behind the bathroom door, he asked me to work on that, I have been. If you have open honesty about those things it can be a lot less annoying to live with that person. We also make sure to have a sense of humor about it. There's some things that are just habits that aren't able to be changed, Tim and I will just talk to each other about it in a jokingly way and laugh! You have to learn to just accept those habits or traits for what they are.

#4. Go to sleep! There's going to be times when you're just not having a good night, you're having small arguments here and there, or maybe a big argument about something for a reason you don't even know. Those are the moments where you should either just go to different rooms, or just go to bed. We had a night where for whatever reason we just kept having small arguments, we ended up just going to sleep and the next morning we felt completely fine and happy. Those moments will happen.

#5. Have fun! Get out of the house and do something together! There's usually something you can find to do for cheap or even free if you need to. One thing Tim have I done is climb Stone Mountain together. We've only climbed it twice so far but it was a lot of fun. I've also began researching free and cheap things to do in ATL with success. If you don't feel like doing something active then do something at home, play a game video or board, or watch one of your favorite movies together. Just do something!


Those are 1st 5 reasons that popped into my mind. That has all been part of our successful first year of marriage. If you have an tips or suggestions feel free to share! What do you like to do for fun with your man?