100 Days of Marriage…and Counting

This week we flew uneventfully past the 100 days of marriage mark. Gosh. Where have the first three, pushing four, months of marriage gone? For me they’ve been all about working on the new site for The Sweetest Occasion, traveling (I’m in Chicago right now visiting Ami!), sifting through the seemingly endless stacks of wedding gifts, getting thank you cards written and in the mail, and dreaming big about things to come in the future – including possibly a house if we can swing it and find a place we love in the next year or so.

So. To answer the age old question, “does it feel different?” Yes. And no. No in the sense that I didn’t wake up to butterflies and rainbows and the stuff cheesy chick flicks are made of the morning I first woke up with a wedding band. Our relationship is largely the same, the good and the bad, and nothing revolutionary has been altered with the signing of a marriage license. Yes in the sense that now there is an extra sense of contentment, an even deeper understanding of partnership and foundation. Oh. And our coffee table is no longer consumed with the scraps of DIY projects and empty rolls of Xyron adhesive. (Which is a huge bonus of marriage if you consult my inner clutter-hating neat freak.)

Oh! Most notably, I finally have healthcare coverage for the first time in years. It’s definitely good to be the spouse of a teacher with the benefits that come from being an employee of New York State – after years of worrying and paying for healthcare out of pocket, I officially have great coverage again and that’s a huge relief. I’ll save my rant about the cluster that is our healthcare system for another post, but for now I can tell you simply that I’m happy to finally be covered again.

So, with that said – how did you spend your first 100 days of marriage? Did they feel any different to you or was it status quo?

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