LIFE. IT IS HAPPENING.
It's been a crazy last few months, guys. I haven't been on here in forever but I feel like enough important things have happened (or are going to happen) that I need to update you three.
1. I am graduating in December! Then I am moving to Texas in January to go to graduate school and live with Tyler. I had been thinking about getting a master's degree anyway, just because of the nature of the job market, and then Tyler asked me to move down to Texas with him so that cemented the idea. We can finish up our master's together and move from there.
2. My sister is pregnant again and is due in the fall! I think after Emma's birthday, so late August? She told Keenan's family and I guess they weren't too upset.. We'll see how this goes. She also bought a house and is moving out of my mom's in a couple of weeks. This of course has led to my mom having a mental breakdown about finances. I now pay for health insurance and the phone bill... I've really been frustrated the last couple months. Parents should take care of their kids, not the other way around. I now know how you feel, Alyssa.
3. My sister told Unco that he couldn't be a part of her life anymore. She did this several weeks ago and she hasn't followed through with it so it's okay, but I can't express how angry I was with her. When she told Unco that she was pregnant, he freaked out and told her that Dom doesn't have a good job and she doesn't have a job at all, and that they couldn't support another child. To me, these are perfectly reasonable concerns. However, my sister didn't like the way he said this to her and became incredibly angry.
When she told me she was cutting him out I actually cried. I know my Unco doesn't have the best social skills but he has the best intentions-- always. I love him so much. And we are all he left in this world. For my sister to turn her back on him because he was genuinely concerned about her... It still brings tears to me eyes. He has NOTHING but the two of us. And I'm going to be moving to another state.. then what? Guh.
4. Tyler is going to propose to me. I don't know when or how but he's been dropping hints. A couple of them I thought were said in a joking way, but the other night he gave it away by sending me this tipsy text:
Every time I talk to you or see a picture of you, it makes me wonder why I ever left [for grad school]. The best rationale I've come up with is that I want you to be so happy from the minute I tell you "I do" on, that it was worth leaving you for a year.
No joke.
And you know what? It doesn't freak me out at all. For all the years that I spent saying marriage was detrimental and never even once imagining it, I now fully embrace it. Only because of him. I don't want to get sappy on you all, but until these past months with Tyler I never understood the desire to get married. Now I do and I can't even explain it.
I was talking to his sister last night and she said there have actually been a couple of times that his parents thought he was going to propose because he insisted that they be somewhere with us.
Along the same note, this distance thing is going incredibly well. It's so easy with technology like Skype. I never really "miss" him because I still get to see him every day. Yes, absence of the physical aspect is rough but we can get that out of our systems. As Tyler pointed out himself, this actually did us some good because we can't just choose to cuddle or watch a movie. We have to talk or we'll sit in silence on the phone or Skype. Not that we had problems talking before he left but now we don't get to opt out of it, and we're closer because of that.
It also doesn't seem like a long time when I take it one day at a time. I have a big calendar that I cross the days off of. It's so satisfying to take my sharpie and scribble out a day haha.
Yep. That is life. I miss you guys.
1. I am graduating in December! Then I am moving to Texas in January to go to graduate school and live with Tyler. I had been thinking about getting a master's degree anyway, just because of the nature of the job market, and then Tyler asked me to move down to Texas with him so that cemented the idea. We can finish up our master's together and move from there.
2. My sister is pregnant again and is due in the fall! I think after Emma's birthday, so late August? She told Keenan's family and I guess they weren't too upset.. We'll see how this goes. She also bought a house and is moving out of my mom's in a couple of weeks. This of course has led to my mom having a mental breakdown about finances. I now pay for health insurance and the phone bill... I've really been frustrated the last couple months. Parents should take care of their kids, not the other way around. I now know how you feel, Alyssa.
3. My sister told Unco that he couldn't be a part of her life anymore. She did this several weeks ago and she hasn't followed through with it so it's okay, but I can't express how angry I was with her. When she told Unco that she was pregnant, he freaked out and told her that Dom doesn't have a good job and she doesn't have a job at all, and that they couldn't support another child. To me, these are perfectly reasonable concerns. However, my sister didn't like the way he said this to her and became incredibly angry.
When she told me she was cutting him out I actually cried. I know my Unco doesn't have the best social skills but he has the best intentions-- always. I love him so much. And we are all he left in this world. For my sister to turn her back on him because he was genuinely concerned about her... It still brings tears to me eyes. He has NOTHING but the two of us. And I'm going to be moving to another state.. then what? Guh.
4. Tyler is going to propose to me. I don't know when or how but he's been dropping hints. A couple of them I thought were said in a joking way, but the other night he gave it away by sending me this tipsy text:
Every time I talk to you or see a picture of you, it makes me wonder why I ever left [for grad school]. The best rationale I've come up with is that I want you to be so happy from the minute I tell you "I do" on, that it was worth leaving you for a year.
No joke.
And you know what? It doesn't freak me out at all. For all the years that I spent saying marriage was detrimental and never even once imagining it, I now fully embrace it. Only because of him. I don't want to get sappy on you all, but until these past months with Tyler I never understood the desire to get married. Now I do and I can't even explain it.
I was talking to his sister last night and she said there have actually been a couple of times that his parents thought he was going to propose because he insisted that they be somewhere with us.
Along the same note, this distance thing is going incredibly well. It's so easy with technology like Skype. I never really "miss" him because I still get to see him every day. Yes, absence of the physical aspect is rough but we can get that out of our systems. As Tyler pointed out himself, this actually did us some good because we can't just choose to cuddle or watch a movie. We have to talk or we'll sit in silence on the phone or Skype. Not that we had problems talking before he left but now we don't get to opt out of it, and we're closer because of that.
It also doesn't seem like a long time when I take it one day at a time. I have a big calendar that I cross the days off of. It's so satisfying to take my sharpie and scribble out a day haha.
Yep. That is life. I miss you guys.