We started traveling as a couple early in our marriage. We’ve always traveled very cheaply, which means we don’t buy a lot of souvenirs while on our trips. And by “we don’t buy a lot”, I mean “I’m not buying anything I have to carry around in my backpack!!!”
Basically, they cost too much [...]
The King and I got married in August of 2000. That first Christmas we decided to start our own tradition by documenting the year with a new ornament for our Christmas tree. Of course the defining ornament for 2000 had to represent our wedding, and so we bought an over-sized diamond ring ornament.
We’ve been using [...]
I often tease The King about the time he confessed that he was “making a commitment to the environment”. He made it sound like The Environment and he had kneeled at an alter, hands entwined, family and friends witnessing, and made a commitment to each other. They would now do everything they could [...]
When we built the first house, we moved in very prematurely. We spent three years living there without any painted trim and a master bathroom that wasn’t finished until the day we put the house on the market.
When we started construction on our new house we vowed to not move into it until it [...]
People are usually shocked when I tell that that The King and I slept in a twin sized bed for the first two years of our marriage. Really, we did. And not even a real twin sized bed. We had a futon mattress. We also lived in a studio apartment, so we [...]
My family and I moved to Corvaillis, Oregon when I was a kid. My dad had hurt his back working at a printing press and therefore needed to go back to school to find a different career.
We moved into the house that will forever be known as The House on 13th Street. [...]