Many couples are co-habitating before marriage and my now husband and I are no different from this modern trend. After hitting a slump immediately following the wedding 2 things occured to me.

1) Terms like "Newlyweds" and "Honey Mooners" were originally applied to those newly married couples back in a time where it was taboo to live together prior to the I-do's.

2) So that new fuzzy feeling may not be there post-nuptials because nothings changed at home but, at the same time those hard to avoid "debates" over combining furniture, working out financial plans and how to decorate squabbles are out of the way.

So what does this mean...

In regards to my personal situation, my husband and I have lived together for almost 2 1/2 years. We bought a house over a 1 1/2 ago and we do not want to have kids yet. At least for the first year of our marriage. We've ironed out a lot of the kinks of combining 2 lives into 1 household and at the least we are aware of what we may have not "ironed out" about each others living habits. Arguments over Alarm clocks, cleaning habits, cooking, bills etc. are in a since "old hat." So, I've chosen to look at this as a jump start!  As far as the "newlywed feeling." Well that's going to require a little bit of work but all great things do... right?!?!?!

So in short this blog is going to be about the adventure of the first year of our marriage and the things that we are going to try out to give our marriage that fun new feeling, minus the surprise of new found co-habitation!!!

-E