Let's hear it for my man!

Well, our apartment is very, very far from being picture-ready for the blog, but it is already transformed... We've spent the summer in a little studio I sublet because Grant had a roommate at his place and let's be honest-who on either end of that situation would want to shack up together? But now my lease is about up and Grant's roommate has left the country and his apartment so we're making the move!

While I ran about all morning with various time-consuming far-away errands and came home and napped all afternoon, Grant huffed and puffed all day spending his morning and afternoon working hard on the apartment, making the transition from it being his grad school shared space to his family's first real Home.

That's actually quite a feat, because it involved dismantling the loft bed he made for himself last year. That alone involved sawing through 4 pieces of 4x4 lumber he used as the legs for the bed. He set up and arranged our entire bedroom (putting together our bed and dragging in the dressers and end tables we're using as night stands). He also made the switch from his roommate's room to our office/extra room by dismantling the bed Jonathan left behind (but no 4x4s this time) and bringing all the storage things he had in his bedroom along with his piano and their speakers in.

So he was tossing around furniture all day and doing a LOT of heavy work. Then we went to the other apartment and he just cheerfully kept going like the Energizer Bunny loading up the car and taking it home and unloading it while I packed things up at the studio.

I was really blown away.

He's still sleeping now, but he's totally earned it. Unfortunately, despite all of Grant's hard work our place is far from picture-ready for the blog. He did the heavy lifting and now it's my job to organize! Turns out I like doing that. And Grant likes that I know where everything is. Sometimes when he asks for something the answer is, "On the table" or "By your computer mouse" but my favorite when the answer is more like, "Underneath the case of the DVD we watched last night" or "On the second shelf of the small cabinet behind the Vitamin C".

Watching him work so hard and without complaint was just one of those things that the other person probably doesn't even think about but makes you fall in Love with them all over again.

Being in this place as Grant's wife is an interesting experience...we both look at each other often and say, "We're married...weird." And I know that we actually did get married, but suddenly I'm bringing in all my stuff to his apartment and he's rearranging furniture and it just puts a whole new level of reality on it. We spent most of our time as friends and a couple here and now being here...it's quite surreal.

Of course, most couples go through that as they're moving in before the wedding and settling in after the honeymoon but most of you know that Grant and I are certainly not most couples.

But I do hope all couples have some measure of the Happiness Grant and I have day in and day out...