1st Year of Marriage- Relationship Check-Up

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1st Year of Marriage- Relationship Check-Up

Monday is our 1 year wedding anniversary. And you know what? Marriage is hard. Like really, really hard. To quote one of my favorite authors,

“All due respect to the Resurrection, but two-becoming-one might be the greatest miracle ever.”  (Thank you Jen Hatmaker for keeping it real in your book For the Love)

Don’t get me wrong. It’s also amazing, and exciting, and a whole lot of fun to be able to see your favorite person first thing every morning… but I feel like the movies give us enough of that stuff. What I find lacking in the conversation about marriage is real, honest accounts of how tough marriage can be, but how it’s totally possible to still make it work. We hear the really great stuff, or the really bad stuff. But rarely do I hear people talking about the in-between stuff (except Jen, who I mentioned earlier has a fabulous chapter devoted to it in her book, For the Love. If you haven’t read it do yourself a favor and pick up the audio copy, because listening to her read it will have you laughing out loud).

So while our first year of marriage was far from perfect (what even is perfect?), we did pretty okay. And I thought I’d share some of the stuff we did to navigate the in-between in case you need a little inspiration in your relationship.

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19 for 2019 Goal Check-In

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19 for 2019 Goal Check-In

So here we are.  Halfway through April, which is honestly absolutely bonkers. How the heck did that happen? I’m not entirely sure, but it did happen, and here we are.

A couple weeks ago, I started reflecting on my decision to give my money away in January to participate in the Happiness Project with Gretchen Rubin. I talked about what’s been working for me, what hasn’t, and what I’ve been learning in the process.

As a whole, it’s been pretty good. March was hard since I couldn’t do much “outer order” work since we’re still working on the house. However, I was able to really focus on some specific items such as my make-up and bag and my email account that I don’t know that I would have gotten to if I was able to do the rest of the house. I’m looking forward to putting the whole house back into “outer order,” but unfortunately, that’s still going to be a while.

In the process of reflecting, I realized that I hadn’t given much thought to my 19 for 2019 goals, so I decided I would pull them out to start working on them. Which I then promptly forgot to do… until now.  I know you never do things like that, so forgive me, I can be easily distracted.

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12 Easy Ways to Reduce Waste (and improve your health at the same time!)

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12 Easy Ways to Reduce Waste (and improve your health at the same time!)

Planeteer Erin here, what do YOU do to save the planet?

Here’s a fun fact about me, I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t want to “save the planet.”  In fact, I remember begging my parents to let me buy 50 Simple Things Kids Can do to Save the Earth at the school Book Fair. Spoiler alert- they let me buy it. In fact, I remember loving this book so much that I re-purchased it three years ago. Don’t worry, I bought it used- Reduce, reuse, recycle friends. I also loved Captain Planet, and was beyond psyched when Subway had the Planeteer rings as the toys in their kid’s meals.  

I’ll be honest- I have no idea if Subway still has kids’ meals, but I do know this. Earth Day is April 22nd, and in honor of Earth Day, here are 12 super-ridiculously easy ways to reduce waste and make an impact.

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