Canadian Thanksgiving and 5 yr Anniversary

Yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving.
but apparently you can celebrate Thanksgiving anytime over the weekend..... so on Friday people on facebook were saying Happy Thanksgiving & I was confused... b/c it's on a Monday right?  well whenever Friday-Monday.
We were unable to celebrate such a holiday because I only saw Lee for about 30 minutes a day and that was when I went over to campus to take him something to eat.
So on Sunday night I made him a turkey sandwich and said Happy Thanksgiving!! haha

After 5 years of being with Lee I have learned that he will eat anything with cheese and onions included.... :)
I didn't have much to offer a turkey sandwich, because after all when I eat one I just eat turkey and bread, so cheese and onions it was! and mayo of course. and he really liked it :)

and last night for our 5years of togetherness I wanted to make him something special that I had never made before.... so I made him pasta with sausage.  he LOVES sausage in pasta, but I DO NOT eat sausage, so he only gets it in restaurants...

I ground up some sausage and put it in the sauce, (which was just canned hunt's cheese & garlic sauce) cream cheese, fresh garlic, onions, bell peppers, and some Cajun seasoning.  I also cut some of the sausage up into bits and fried it with some onions and put it on top...
Lee was very happy.
I ate garlic bread for dinner. lol.

homestretch

I got up at 6:30am to make Lee breakfast before his Biochem final (the last one! yay)
Yes, he woke me up.... but at least I told him to.

I've been watching Mad Men & it's set in the 60s & all the women are such syrupy sweet housewives... none of them are happy & their husbands are dirt bags & they all smoke like freight trains.... BUT it did make me think about how women actually did do every single thing at home & how Lee being consumed with medical school about 14-15 hrs a day makes me a 1960s housewife.
Dinner is ready for him when he gets home (as well as breakfast & lunch occasionally) I do the dishes, he always has clean laundry, I make the bed everyday, I even take the trash out. haha.... ugh it sound so depressing.  I don't mind it that much, especially since I don't have a real job, but even on days when I babysit and/or do some volunteer stuff I come home & am like.... are you serious I have to cook now? and in the real world Lee would be doing sooooo much more.  When we lived in West Virginia he did the dishes every single day and at least once a week he cooked.
I'm afraid those days are over, at least for the foreseeable future.
But I am so overwhelmingly proud of my husband for completing his first term of medical school and doing so well and still having time to love me and making sure I never feel neglected.

You make me happy to be alive!

I picniked a few picture with the lyrics to what has become kind of Lee and I's song... Firefly by Jimmy Needham.
His new album is coming out soon & we're both really excited... we're planning on listening to it the entire way to my parent's house... a 10 hr drive. haha

He thinks I hung the moon and stars... I think he's a livin' dream

even though Lee has midterms this week and he has been studying all day everyday the past week... I've never felt more in love or close to him. 
I don't know what it is... it feels like we've just started dating rather than going on 5 years - making each other laugh, complimenting each other an absurd amount, kissing every time we get within 4ft of each other...
we are just ridiculously happy and silly... and I like it!

I can't believe how blessed I am to have such a husband.
not only is he tall and good looking, he's smart, he loves God and has a heart for furthering his kingdom, he truly wants to help people and be a good example of Christ.  We have actually fought because he was 'too nice' to someone when I wanted him to be mean... he is rubbing off on me though.  He has taught me to see things from other people's point of view and to just be a better person.
and nevermind the fact that he is going to be a doctor! I fell in love with him long before he decided on medicine, but I did fall in love with the hardest worker I've ever met.  He is so dedicated it's insane.
another thing that I love about Lee is how much he loves and trust me... he thinks that I'm the greatest thing on earth, or he at least makes me feel like that's how he thinks :) he thinks I'm the greatest cook, the best artist, the best dressed, the prettiest, the best wife.... he's even said I'm an expert blogger, even though I've only been doing it for a month. bless his little heart, he always acts so impressed by me & I love him for that & confidence he gives me.

I've always loved this song, and I think it says it best :)

Mama, I found someone
Like you said would come along
He's a sight, so unlike
Any man I've known
I was afraid to let him in
'Cause I'm not the trustin' kind
But now I'm convinced
That he's heaven sent
And must be out of his mind

Mama, he's crazy
Crazy over me
And in my life is where he says
He always wants to be
I've never been so in love
He beats all I've ever seen
Mama, he's crazy
He's crazy over me

And, Mama, you've always said,
"Better look before you leap!"
Maybe so, but here I go
Lettin' my heart lead me
He thinks I hung the moon and stars
I think he's a livin' dream
Well, there are men
But ones like him
Are few and far between

I love my husband!

yesterday Lee and I celebrated Valentine's Day because he had his unified exams yesterday morning and was studying the eeeeentire weekend. so after his exams in the morning we headed for the beach! more about that on my other blog kelseycoghill.blogspot.com
after our beach excursion we came home and washed alllllll the sand and salt off and I headed to the orphanage.  Every Monday I go to Queen Elizabeth's Home and play with the kids there for a couple hours. Lee stayed home to study and prepare for a presentation he has to do in lab tomorrow (the studying NEVER ends!)
and when I got back we got ready to go out to eat for Valentine's Day.
I really wanted to go watch the sunset together... and I really wanted pizza (because like I said, I love it!!) and I've gotten pretty good at making most of our other favorite meals... so why pay for it in a restaurant, right?
and Lee really wanted to watch Star Trek... because we haven't watched a movie together in a while and we hadn't seen it and my friend Sherry gave us a  ton of movies to watch! and Sylar from Heroes is Spock!
so we went and watched the sunset, it was beautiful as always, and we just walked down the hill and got pizza from the restaurant on campus... haha even though we had full intentions of going out.
it doesn't take a whole lot to make us happy.
Pizza, popcorn, pop, and a movie! :)

but even better than that.... while I was at the orphanage Lee washed the dishes!!!!!!!!!!! hooray!!!! he knows how much I detest the dishes... that is true love :)\

My Lee.

new

I decided to create another blog... separate from my "Grenada" blog to talk about being a housewife... because today I realized that's what I am, and I am actually loving it.  I love to make my husband happy... and I don't feel less of an empowered woman because of it. I don't feel bound by my new role.... I feel privileged to have the opportunity to do so.  I've heard lots of people say how delicate the first year of marriage is, and thankfully our first 5 months has gone much much much better than I could have ever hoped for, but if there is something that I can do to further nurture this relationship, then that sounds good to me.

True, I still hate and despise doing dishes...I am doing them, and multiple times a day because we only have 4 plates, bowls, spoons etc... but this morning I woke up at 9 and Lee had already left for lab at 8, I realized that there weren't any clean bowls because we had used them all the night before and I didn't do dishes after dinner.... and so there wasn't a clean bowl for Lee to have cereal this morning. and I genuinely felt bad.  This poor boy has been working and studying 8am-11pm basically everyday since we got here, and he couldn't even have cereal this morning b/c there wasn't a clean bowl...
could he have washed a bowl out himself? well yes... but still, I really feel like it's my job right now to not add any additional stress to his life.  is a dirty bowl stress? YES. there are people in his classes crying about the workload... people have already dropped out... a friend of Lee's is paying me to go to the grocery for him because he doesn't have time to get his own food!
medical school is pure madness.
and if I can make it the tiniest bit easier on Lee by making sure he has a clean cereal bowl in the morning.... then that's what I'm going to do.
because I love him...
and lets face it. he'll pay me back someday =)