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The baby was born just two days before the wedding. She’s the first baby Matt recalls holding. She was also the first baby I’ve held while wearing wedding rings. It’s craziness. And she’s just too darn cute. We’re waiting impatiently for her parents to need a break & call in our offer to baby-sit.

We’re also waiting impatiently for hubby’s employment status to change so we can start talking about houses and a few babies of our own so we don’t have to borrow them from various friends and relatives.

Some day, Matt will post more. Seeing as I’m generally the more talkative one, I think I’ll probably babble here more, too.

*edited to add that I have a feeling we’ll be waiting a long time to get to baby-sit because I’m not sure how Maureen & Tony could ever need a break from all that cute-ness

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In other Buchwald Family News, Matt is still in bed. Normally this wouldn’t be an issue, as I like to let dh sleep in on the weekend. But today we have places to be & people to see. We also have things to do before we can go anywhere or see anyone. A mere 4 hours from now we’re supposed to be an hour away for a family reunion. It takes a minimum of an hour for the two of us to get ready to go anywhere, and I still have to make food to take with us. I also wanted to finish going through the proofs from the wedding & get ready to place our order.

This being a grown-up married woman thing is hard… Actually having to take food to picnics! Imagine that! *pouts* Where’s my mommy? Oh yeah, she’s at her house, getting her OWN food ready to go to the picnic. My food will be far inferior to anything my mom has ever made, but at least I’m making an effort, right? I’ve kidnapped a recipe for taco dip from Carrie and I’m going to attempt to feed it to my relatives. I tried to feed it to Maureen & Tony’s relatives a few weeks ago… and they ate it… but I found out later that I made it wrong. So hopefully round two will go better (not that round one was bad, mind you) & the relatives will like it.

Tomorrow looks to be another go-to-church-then-sit-around-the-house kind of Sunday, which is A-OK by me, and I’m sure Grandpa Stock approves. I have a goal that I will not shop on Sundays now that I’m married, and last Sunday was the first Sunday I suceeded in my goal. All of the previous Sundays we just couldn’t sit still so we ended up at the store.

On Monday, we’re going to dinner with Matt’s dad to celebrate Matt’s birthday yet again. I think Matt wants to go to Applebee’s, Hopefully we’ll be able to get there early enough to enjoy Happy Hour. I haven’t had a good Long Island Iced Tea since the day before I got married (Thanks, Diddy!).

Wednesday is our final session of NFP. Not that I’m any sort of seasoned veteran or anything, but so far NFP is working out really well for Matt & I. I think I can safely speak for my hubby when I say that we strongly recommend learning it. *insert 30 second commercial* It’s really really inexpensive ($45 for the four session/3 month class which includes instructional material & a thermometer plus any cost for photocopying extra charts and something to write with), very time efficient (5 minutes a day, tops), and it’s educational. Plus, it’s something you have to work on together, so it builds communication. You can learn more from Couple to Couple League or your local Catholic Diocese. *end 30 second commercial*

Next weekend, Ginny & I have plans for a Princess’s Day Out. This means no boys. More on that later… time to wake the hubby!

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First, sad attempts at German, now some pathetic Spanish.

Slowly but surely Matt & I have been working on thank you notes. I’m a big fan of the idea of thank you notes, but not so much actually writing them. So I’m apologizing in advance if my thank you notes end up sounding lame. I’m just not a very creative writer. But we truly do appreciate all of the gifts we received and they’re all really really awesome.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank Steve for setting up yet another gallery for me. The pictures from over at the bpg will move here as soon as I have the time & energy to do it. The other gallery will be for not-so-family-oriented pictures.

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Sleeping in is great. It’s one of those thinsg that just sends tinglies down your spine and warm in your chest. That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, but it sounds good, so I’m going with it. Of coruse, it’s not really sleeping in when your wife wakes you up real early, then immediately lets you go back to sleep. It’s more like an interrupted continuation of sleep that accurs after waking. But hey, at least it’s more sleep. And it’s not like I have to turn into a cockroach to do it, so on the whole I think it’s fairly snazzing.
Amy can’t tell our socks apart. Which is amusing to me, because her feet are 17 sizes smaller than mine. Apparently they all morph into equally-sized balls of sock when folded, and this in where the actual problem lies. We must seek a way to destroy the size-mutating socks, for the good of the land! Underwear is a rather silly thing to fold. It goes on your butt, and you don’t show if off to other people if you can help it. It’s therefore okay to just toss in the dresser to save time. Yet, I still fold underwear for her. I’m just that nice. Or masochistic, it’s really the same thing sometimes. The rent check was sitting on my desk because it had just run a 10-mile marathon and was pretty tired. You’d be sitting after that, too. Also, you use a meat tenderiser to tenderise meat. I know, I know. That wasn’t obvious. I also use it to pound meet into uniform thickness. Not only does this help it cook more evenly, but it makes taking the surface integral of the meat just that much easier!
She let me buy the Lego Stardestroyer so I suppose I’ll have to let things slide until she buys $100 more of scrapbook supplies. Then we’ll be even. THough still pretty odd.

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Tomorrow is my husband’s birthday and on Monday we’ll have been married for a full calendar month. Today, we’ve been married exactly four weeks. How are we celebrating all of these wonderful events? By sleeping in. Sleeping in is, I think, Matt’s favorite thing about being married… That is to say he loves it when I let him sleep in. I don’t do that very often. His idea of sleeping in varies greatly from mine. Last night, we got home from celebrating a friend’s birthday at roughly 2:30am. I slept until about 8:30 and decided I’d had enough. My dear husband is still in bed. I think he’d stay there indefinitely if he didn’t have a bladder.
My favorite thing about being married? Letting him sleep in. And then waking him up. It’s about time to do that, I think. He can have a few more minutes while I finish this post, but then it’s about time we accomplished something today (see previous post)
The first four weeks of married life have been quite agreable. We’ve established a budget, in which, of course, we spend more than I earn. This problem is easily solved by Matt acquiring a job… and that’s on his list for first thing Tuesday. We have a three-month plan (Amy works, Matt works part-time & writes a thesis & finds a “real” job), a three-year plan (a house, a baby & no more working for Amy), and a 30-year plan (top-secret classified information). We continue to have thoroughly amusing arguments ranging from the folding of socks, underwear and decorative towels to why is the rent check sitting on your desk and why in heaven’s name do we need a meat tenderizer.
The apartment is now fully furnished with as much furniture as we can possibly squeeze in here… and it’s time to decorate. Goodness knows I have enough decorations.
I think I’ll go wake dh & see what he wants for a pre-birthday breakfast.

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