...On Holidays.

I love holidays.  I love Christmas.  I love Thanksgiving.  I love the 4th of July.  I love St. Patrick's Day.  I love them all!

Husband was kinda meh.

I.  KNOW.

It was tragic.  I had to teach him how wonderful holidays can be.

And since we've been married, husband has made an extra effort to get excited with me.  He has even embraced my decision to start listening to Christmas music in October (right, hun? I love you!).

That is just one of the hundreds of ways that husband has showed how much he loves me during our first year of marriage.  He has full on embraced a home that loves holidays.

Our first year of marriage was a different year of holidays for me, though.  Not only was it my first year to celebrate with a husband, but the first year that we had to really consider what was best for our family.

For Christmas, we couldn't go visit our families.  It was going to be just us two.  This caused a whole roller coaster of emotions for me at the time.  At first, I was so bummed, and partly mad at my job for making it so difficult for us to see family during Christmas.  Then, I started to get excited to start off fresh with new traditions and to have a romantic Christmas with my husband.  We even were blessed with sweet local friends (basically family) who invited us over for a Christmas Eve feast.  But that night, the night before Christmas, we both lost it.  I went first.  I cried.  I couldn't help but cry because I wasn't going to spend Christmas with the people I have spent every Christmas with for my entire life.  I was so sad that a day so set on tradition, was going to be different.  Then husband lost it.  He was so sad to see me upset and that he couldn't make it perfect for me.  We both ended in tears.

But then we got it out of our systems and had an amazing time with friends.  And then an even more amazing time just the two of us the next day.  Just him and me.  Our new family.  Our family was together on Christmas.  I think of the wives whose husbands are deployed and can't spend Christmas with them.  Or the widows who will never again spend a Christmas with their husband.  My heart hurts for them.  That Christmas, I was thankful for a special holiday with my husband right there beside me.

And since then?  Our perspective in all aspects of our marriage have changed.  We have begun to put our family first.  And one day, we may be blessed with adding little ones to the mix, and it is going to be our family that loves being together.  Just us.  All fourteen of us.  Ok, maybe not fourteen, but husband likes to tell people we're going to have a dozen kids.

Holidays are the best.

And they're even better when you're married.

This first year of marriage has been a whole new year of exciting holidays and I can't wait to celebrate them every year with our new family. 

This is day 5 of the series "31 Days on becoming a new wife."  I hope you'll journey with me as I reflect on my first year as a Mrs!  Click on the button to see a list of the rest of the posts.

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