A couple of days ago I received a text from my new sister-in-law, Danyel Barnett, exclaiming how I needed to blog and had it been forever since my last one. Well, I thought about it and I decided to create an entirely new blog about our married life. I have watched and seen other people do this and I like the idea. I also think though that I will continue to write blogs about the random thoughts in my brain, whether, mystical, spiritual, intellectual or just plain silly, I will still write about my little observations about life. I have always like the idea of blogs sharing your thoughts, lives, pictures with other. I feel as though it has a different classiness that other sites like Facebook might not. Although, I love Facebook. Anyways I digress....
Tomorrow it will be a month since Payton and I have been married and it has been a wonderful month so far! Everything went well with the wedding and I have to say I am so thankful and have a great appreciation for my family and friends. Without them the wedding would not have been as amazing as it was. Everything went well, from the flowers, to the food, to the exit but mainly I just loved the fact that I was finally married to my love and best friend Payton, that to me was the best part.
Payton and I get asked a lot, how do you like marriage? Or is it so different? The more I have thought about these questions the more I realize that in all reality it is not so different. Let me clarify that last statement: It is different but I do not feel like I have jumped into an alternate reality. I think it was just natural and oh so easy. Payton and I had literally every different kind of talk you could possibly have before marriage and I think we were prepared. More so I feel blessed to be around him all the time, I love waking up and knowing he is there and going to bed and seeing him. So all in all I am loving it, which I think is how it is supposed to be, it was a natural and wonderful step for the two of us.
I am still teaching fourth grade and I love it, the more I teach the more I enjoy it. In my heart of hearts part of me would still love to do some form of counseling or maybe school counseling eventually. But I really do love being a teacher! Payton goes back to school on Wednesday and I am not sure if he is uber excited or not.
Life all in all is wonderful, we are really involved with our life group at church and have found after our group meets to be praying, thinking and hoping for some of the thoughts to be lived out through our lives. I think that is why I titled this blog what I did, there have been times when I have heard the expression"Living between the lines" but I like the idea of "loving between the lines". To live a life of love in every state and place in life, to love the way Christ loved us. I think this is what Payton and I desire to see in our marriage everyday! So this is the introduction to this blog, I will do my best to write at least once a week if not more. Many blessings! And Happy Birthday DAD!
