I love being married to my husband, and I would never want to know what life would be like if we hadn’t decided to get married. As you know, he’s in the military and being married meant leaving my friends just three-ish months after our wedding.
“See you later, friends. This wife is off to a new adventure!”
Let me curl up here and tell you a story.
It’s been weird around here for a few weeks now. My humans are always busy, and I only get to cuddle them when they sink into the giant blanket-covered sleeping spot.
“It’s a trap!” my husband warns himself.
“No, it isn’t. I mean it when I say I don’t care to celebrate Valentine’s Day. I’m really that girl, and you married me. Thank you for marrying me…”
There is a pretty good reason why I don’t care to celebrate Valentine’s Day with my husband. We met four days after Valentine’s Day, and every year, that day, that’s the important day. It’s my favorite day of the year—the day-that-we-met day. I would so much rather celebrate our day than Valentine’s Day.
I started playing fantasy football in much the same way that I became a military spouse. A guy I really liked asked me a question, and I said, “Yes.” He had to ask about fantasy football more than once—big deal. At least with that, I had an inkling of what I was getting into.
Across my almost five years as a military spouse and my three seasons as a fantasy football contender, some of the lessons I’ve learned apply to both experiences and, well, let’s just go for it—life in general.
Remember that health class lesson when they taught you it was acceptable to eat macaroni and cheese day and night like there is no tomorrow? Yeah, me neither. But to me, cheese is its own food group, and it’s the best one!
As it turns out, my cute little cheese- and carb-loving habits were not so helpful to my health.
It was a beautiful day a couple of weeks ago, and I knew I was making a choice that would impact my whole day.
I knew it would be good, but I couldn’t have known how long the ripple effect would last. Maybe I still don’t know for sure how my choice made an impact that day.
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