Daily I think..... Jamie, you should update your blog....
Daily I push that thought aside telling myself - It doesn't matter, no one reads it.
Daily I get reminded from good friends... that it does get read - so this is for you, with a promise of doing better.
This is officially my first entry as the new Mrs. Flattley. I am getting used to using that as my last name - but it still throws me a little when people use the word "wife" to describe me. There we definatly times that I thought I would never be anyone's wife and now it seems surreal that I am.... but, I'm sure I'll get used to that.
Married life is good. We spent our honeymoon in Ocean City, MD and it was beautiful! I got pulled over by the Maryland state police on the way there because I only had one working headlight.... needless to say Chris found it very entertaining. We spent most of our time in our cute hotel - which was more like a nice condo with a great view of the bay, kitchen, living room, dining area, and bedroom. We ended up staying for 4 nights and it was really nice.
As we made our way back to Hershey, Pennsylvania - we got the call that the room in the basement of the house I nanny for - that was supposed to be done - wasnt and so unless we wanted to kick one of the kids out of their room (no thank you -- newlyweds remember...) I would have to pay for a hotel. I am nowhere near rich so we settled at the "Cocoa Motel" a.k.a. The Palace (it made me feel better to call it that). Let me try to explain how it was -- you know the smell you smell when you walk into an old person's house, or maybe the smell you smell when you walk into a very poorly run nursing home? That is what it was like... with soap, towels and shampoo stolen from various "nicer" hotels, wood paneled walls, awful carpeting, paper thin walls, and a bed that you could use as dry wall. It was rough going for those few weeks imagine, being a ROOM with the same person for days on end and then having them at work with you too. I love him, but it was hard for both of us.
We are now in the basement, it isnt finished we are using a shower curtain with duct tape, a carpet remnant for flooring (not one that even beings to fit either) and the constant sound of the foot steps of 7 other people upstairs.
As for the job..... I love the kids but HATE the situation. After some really tough times with the bosses, Chris and I have decided to come back to Utah in a little over a week. Where we'll live, how we'll live, or what we'll do it still anyones guess.... but being unemployed and homeless beats this any day.
And how am I doing? After a month of marriage I can say I am doing very well. I love being married, I love WHO I married and I wouldnt change those things for anything.... Our life together has never been "normal" or easy, and I hope that one day we can get used to that, but for right now we just keep going....
