First off, I just started reading people’s comments on our posts, thank you! I didn’t notice them actually until now, but I love to know that I am keeping people updated or confused or entertained.

Today is the culmination of big decisions being finalised for the country. Happens to us too in ways, but we control them, sometimes. All the decisions we are making in our lives just seem to happen without us having control over them. Not in a bad way, things just seem to make logical sense sometimes. Like where we will spend Thanksgiving and Christmas, we will spend both those with Seth's family because we can't afford to go back to Ireland twice next year.

Then other decisions seem not to come about so easily. Like how we spend our evenings or our weekends, sometimes we have disagreements on those more minor decisions. But funnily enough the bigger life decisions we don't generally disagree about. That’s nice. Only it’s the minor day to day decisions that happen day to day, so they provide lots of communication opportunities...nice!

And I'm working now. The move to America rewired everything except my personality. Or maybe it was marriage. Whichever it was now that I am here my dreams, my desires, my priorities, my motives have all changed. That’s ok, but it’s really quite confusing. I do know I love my husband so very much and want to be his wife in the best way I can be. That I know, but we encourage each other to be ourselves, and I’m not sure what I’m after right now. Doors will open and doors will close, no doubt, I will find out.

There are still two yellow trees outside our window, they suffice as today’s sunshine, as the sky is grey and it is election day. I wonder is it some pathetic fallacy…regardless, God is in control!

Seth and I are going to the MN Orchestra on Saturday, continuing to seek out new date ideas, finding things we like and dislike together…and separately. Finding people we can befriend as a couple and individually.

Ashley and I hung out last night and had a very detailed conversation about cheese. I miss good cheese…not that you can’t get it here, but it’s so expensive. I am excited to go back to Ireland for cheese…and my family and friends too