Thermalgal’s Temperate Mumblings

A Marriage Meme

February 14, 2008 on 4:06 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 Comment

I saw thing on Annette’s blog and decided what not…

1. Where / how did you meet?
We met at the UMd Tae Kwon Do Club

2. How long have you known each other?
I met him for the first time about twelve years ago

3. How long after you met did you start dating?
I knew him for two years before we started dating

4. How long did you date before you were engaged?
We got engaged about two years 10 months after dating

5. How long was your engagement?
About a year and two months

6. How long have you been married?
We’ve been married almost six years

7. What is your anniversary?
March 15th

8. How many people came to your wedding reception?
We didn’t have a wedding reception

9. What kind of cake did you serve?
We didn’t serve cake, but our private dinner had a tropical fruit tiramisu

10. Where was your wedding?
We got married on Lindsey Beach (at a hotel) in Kona, Hawaii

11. What did you serve for the meal?
I had pork and DH has fish

12. How many people were in your bridal party?
No bridal party

13. Are you still friends with them all?
N/A

14. Did your spouse cry during the ceremony?
I don’t think so.

15. Most special moment of your wedding day?
Err… I can’t think of any thing that was more special that anything else.

16. Any funny moments?
Trying to get something to drink (just wanted some soda or water) after the ceremony. The bar had just closed. Luckily the guests who were sitting around brow beat the waiter to get us some water.

17. Any big disasters?
Nope

18. Where did you go on your honeymoon?
Kona, duh

19. How long were you gone?
We were gone a total of two weeks

20. If you were to do your wedding over, what would you change?
Maybe have some family there

21. What side of the bed do you sleep on?
Here is where the engineer in me comes out. If you are standing at the foot of the bed looking at the headboard, I sleep on the left side.

22. What size is your bed?
King

23. Greatest strength as a couple?
We were good friends before we started dating and have been best friends for the past ten years.

24. Greatest challenge as a couple?
Division of duties (who takes care of repairing things around the house, who cleans or in my case doesn’t)

25. Who literally pays the bills?
DH writes checks each month for the phone, tv, gas, car insurance and has an automatic transfer for half the mortgage. I have everything else on automatic (mortgage, internet, and electric).

26. What is your song?
We don’t have a song

27. What did you dance your first dance to?
We didn’t have a first dance

28. Describe your wedding dress.
Antique white with err… what is it called when the top is like a tank top? The top has embroidery and the skirt was plain (I think, I might have to run down stairs to look).

29. What kind of flowers did you have at your wedding?
The only flowers we had were in my lei and matching head thingy. Don’t know what they were, something tropical. I didn’t order them.

30. Are your wedding bands engraved?
No and DH lost his on our 5 year anniversary trip to Kauai.

Just got back from Henry’s 2 month appointment and the doc says he is doing wonderful and is perfect.  His weight is 90th percentile, his height/length is just over 50th, and his head is 25th.  I’m surprised by the head number because I have one outfit that fits him fine except for the head (had to really struggle to get it on).  The doc even admitted that when she first walked into the room she thought he was 4 months old!  I said I was concerned that he weighed too much (13 pounds, 10 ounces), but she said he isn’t fat just very solid and it isn’t surprising that he is big considering his daddy is 6’1″.  She even gave me kudos for pumping (never could get him to latch on correctly and stopped attempting it after 4 weeks of misery) all his meals.  We’ll see how it works out after I go back to work, but I’m still hoping to have him on mostly breastmilk for a year (he gets maybe one bottle of formula once a week).

Oh, and the Baby Whisperer routine is going great!  For the first time, not sure if ever or just the first time in about 7 weeks, he slept at night time!  We put him to bed at 7:30 after his bath and he didn’t wake up when I attempted the second cluster feed at 8:45 or the dream feed at 10 (like it should be).  Then he slept until 1:50 and I fed him some more and he went back to sleep until 4:45.  Daddy took that one (I rolled over and nudged him to do it) and then he woke up for the day about 5:50.  Still not the schedule I want, but wow, that was the best sleep I’ve had since the evening of December 10th (the night of December 11th was spent in labor and delivery and he was born December 12th).