Rounding Out the Year

Last weekend, Michael and I celebrated our one year anniversary. I cannot begin to express how crazy it is to be standing on this side of that year.

In the last eighteen months, we have done the following:

• lived in China
• returned to the United States
• signed two year contracts for cell phones
• got engaged
• moved our former lives in Iowa and Texas/Oklahoma to New Jersey
• planned a wedding
• found a house to rent despite being unemployed
• got married
• lived off our savings while working less than 15 hours a week each for 8 months
• found full-time jobs
• in Michael's case, said full-time job ended; in Elena's case full-time job turned out not as expected

The only thing we managed NOT to add to this terribly eventful list of activities is getting pregnant. For this, I am grateful.

Year Two is starting out just as eventful. We're looking to move again, this time not so transglobally (I think I just invented another word), transcontinentally, or even transprovincially/transstately. We're only going transcountyly this time. More on this in posts to come.

(P.S. We're not pregnant.)