What's been happening

I haven't blogged in (ahem) quite some time. Let me put it this way: I fell in love with the most wonderful man and decided to marry him. I hardly had time to pop in here and announce our engagement, as things unfolded somewhat rapidly. In April we were engaged, before a week had passed we drove from North Carolina to my hometown in Utah. We planned a wedding in 10 weeks, married in the Salt Lake temple, and the next day started our journey back to the East coast. We enjoyed a bed-and-breakfast honeymoon across the country, made it to North Carolina in time for Nick's sister's wedding one week after our own (a detail we shan't dwell upon) and then drove to Philadelphia and lived in a Marriott hotel for four days before signing a lease for our apartment. So here I am, moved to a new city, in search of a new job, and blissfully happy with my new (and first and only) husband.

I've missed blogging because I'm a verbose person and I get a lot of jumbled thoughts and unnecessary worrying straightened out when I take the time to ramble up a post. I feel a sort of confidence that if I record my life, it fits more easily within a comprehensible frame and I am able to review it and see it, hold it, analyze it and make sense of the whirlwind around me. Reflection is ultimately connecting the dots and reassuring yourself of the destination of your path. I pray and I write in my journal and I talk to my friends and family on the phone and tell them my stories, but this blog gives me a place to put it down chronologically, wrapped up neat and tidy. My journals aren't neat, tidy or chronological--I just dump my brain in scribbles across the page. This blog is the place where I take the time to organize it all a bit. 

So, we're back! Now if only I can get my dang wedding photographer to get me some pictures (it's been ELEVEN weeks!!!! I'm going crazy!!!), we'll start posting some fun and important things from this summer. 

Here we go!! 

Love,

Jessica