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Marriage & Relationships

Reconnecting over Dinner

*This post has been sponsored by Adproval and it's client. All thoughts, opinions and photos are my own. One of my main September goals was to reconnect with my husband after being apart from him for 6 weeks. Even before that time apart, we had a bit of a rough summer with constant moving and never having a space that was ours to communicate in, so it's been at the top of my priority list this month to reconnect, relearn each other and to get back into healthy communication habits. As we discussed what things we could do to reconnect (minus spending all our money at the arcade) I told Dustin that one thing I really wanted to work this month while we got . . .

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What to do When Your Husband Is Stressed

I had a totally different post planned for today, but, as per usual, life has gotten in the way and as I sat down, this post came out of my fingers instead. I'm not going to lie; it's been a rough week. Dustin and I went to a family reunion up in Northern California this weekend, got home Monday and were faced with the sudden reality that not only were we moving this Sunday, but he had to finish up his massive internship project, write several papers and finish his online class by the time end of the week. Add onto that the fact that we're trying to sell his motorcycle before we leave and trying to figure out how to pack all our stuff up in our little SUV . . .

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Making Your Spouse’s Dreams Your Own

I'm writing from warm and beautiful California and am so excited to be back at my keyboard and on Life with Rosie. Thanks to all of my wonderful blog friends who wrote guest posts this last week and kept my corner of the internet busy and active! Our move went as smoothly as possible, and although our sweet Escape had to work super hard to tow the motorcycle over the Donner pass, we only had one minor incident with the trailer...which happened while we were trying to park it in the driveway at 2 AM (Dustin's ears took a nap while I was directing him and the taillight might have bumped into the fence). I'll take it. Anyway!   Dustin and I . . .

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