Life all Grown Up

I've seriously got to get my blog updates back on track! It's a little hard to transition from writing about trips to Spain or Germany to waxing poetic on the mundane details of a life that's shifted back to more ordinary.

My life and free time as I knew it during the two years we were in transition has for all intents and purposes come to an end. I'm back to waking up at 5:15 am and spendng my weekends grading and planning. I won't lie, it's not all roses, but I am enjoying the challenges and rewards of working again. The vast majority of my students are awesome - my first class of the day has been an absolute joy to work with. And while my life is beyond frenetic, it's still much easier than my first year of teaching. Plus, I now have a host of wonderful memories from Europe to calm me when I'm feeling overwhelmed.

We've come a long way since touching down in the US in late April. We now have couches for our basement and living room, and a full grown up dining room set!! I've never had a china cabinet before - four years after our wedding, and I'm finally able to display our pretty plates! We still have a long way to go - the living room's still a bit sparse - but it's a good start. In any case, we have virtually no free time, so we'll have to live with it probably until at least Christmastime.

With grown up furniture came grown up birthdays for both of us - Nate and I have now transitioned out of the world of 20-somethings - aahhhh!! On the other hand, I suppose if our next thirty years are as unbelievably blessed as the first have been, we have have some incredible experiences yet to look forward to.