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Mrs. Bunny, Columbus Age and Occupation: 24, Associate Editor/Reporter Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Reporter Engagement Date: September 23, 2008 Wedding Date: July 2009 Venue: Everal Barn, Westerville About Me: Organized, but messy. I love art (all kinds). I don't have any secrets. I talk a lot and listen even more. I show love by baking. I'm timid by nature, but brave when it counts. Mr. Bunny and I work at competing weekly newspapers, which makes it a little interesting trying to describe our work joys and frustrations without giving away too much before the paper comes out. In spite of that little hurdle, we've managed to build a pretty solid relationship in the short one-and-a-half years we will have been together when we tie the knot. I can't wait!
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Breaking It In

July 24th, 2009 @ 4:44 pm by Mrs. Bunny

Mr. Bunny and I are still without internet at our new place, so it’s been tough to find time to blog. We don’t have a TV, either. Except for our cell phones and constant drone of talk radio, we’re disconnected from the outside world from the moment we leave work for the day!

One upside to Stone Age living has been that it’s given us plenty of time to spend paying attention to each other and our relationship in the first few weeks of marriage. We didn’t live together before the wedding, so the past two weeks since the honeymoon were our introduction to what it’s going to be like from here on out.

Honestly, it’s awesome being married. We both LOVE coming home to each other every night, and because we’re each enjoying ourselves, we’re nice to each other (most of the time). It’s been a self-perpetuating state of wedded bliss thus far.

That’s not to say that we haven’t had some difficult moments — because we definitely have.

For one thing, being married hasn’t made mornings any easier for Mr. Bunny. He is just not ever going to be a morning person, I don’t think. I’ve tried to be sweet and cheerful in the mornings even when he’s grumpy, but sometimes I really have to kick his butt to get him out of bed!

We haven’t had many opportunities to eat dinner together, so this morning I decided to make breakfast. I confess - I hoped that the smell of bacon and blueberry pancakes would sweeten Mr. Bunny’s usually-grouchy AM temperment.

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It was not to be, however. It took four or five tries to get Mr. Bunny out of bed for Martha Stewart’s blueberry cornmeal pancakes (which I saw on Bakerella earlier this week). On top of that, I burned the bacon and turned our kitchen into a smoky disaster zone!

Fortunately breakfast wasn’t a total loss. I got to use our new dishes — white and turquoise Fiestaware — a new Kitchenaid whisk, Pyrex 8-cup measuring bowl, and a bunch of vintage glasses and dishes that my grandmother left me. (Mr. Bunny and I are renting her house. She moved in with my parents after my grandfather passed away last year.)

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Once I got Mr. B out of bed, his mood improved considerably. He apologized for being a jerk (hrmph.), cooked me two perfect strips of bacon and took the burned pieces wthout complaining.

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We ate pancakes — blueberry for him, chocolate chip for me — sipped orange juice out of vintage wine glasses, cleaned the kichen together and dozed on the couch for a few minutes before we had to leave for work.

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Breaking in a marriage is like breaking in a pair of new shoes. You might have bought them because they look fantastic and make you feel like a million bucks, but it still might take days … or weeks … or months before the shoes stop rubbing your feet the wrong way, pinching your toes and giving you crazy painful blisters.

Three weeks ago today, I took the plunge, bought the shoes and threw away the reciept. This marriage may occasionally give me blisters, but I still smile every time I look down at my left hand. I’m loving every minute of it!

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What have your “new shoes” moments with your significant other been — the ones that make you feel like a million bucks, happy to be alive and in love?
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Melissabegins
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Melissabegins (message)  3,340 posts, Sugar bee

super cute post - and great photography, by the way. I can’t wait to get married haha :)

 
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kjpugs
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kjpugs (message)  1,751 posts, Buzzing bee

HAHA… my FH is also a morning grump. We’ve been living together for over a year and while the shoes fit great, they tend to PINCH in the morning! I have to take everything pre-8am with a grain of salt. :-D you are so right!

 
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phruphru (message)  184 posts, Blushing bee

You are so cute! I have to say that trying out our new kitchen gadgets has been one of the most exciting things about newlywed life. (Besides, you know, being married to the love of your life, etc.)

 
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Miss Bruschetta (message)  5,565 posts, Bee Keeper

Awww, your breakfast spread looks delish — and has an adorable vintage vibe! Since Mr. Bruschetta and I already live together, I’m really looking forward to seeing how things will/won’t change between us after the wedding. We’re both kinda morning grumps — or just really sleeeeeepy people trying to get up for the gym, which is NEVER fun until you’re in the middle of the workout — so I’m sure that’ll stay the same!

 
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Jenniphyr
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Jenniphyr (message)  2,602 posts, Sugar bee

Glad to hear things are going well! =) Looking forward to the re-caps!

 
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Mrs. Taffy (message)  3,104 posts, Sugar bee

This post is so sweet! :) mmm, both kinds of pancakes sound so yummy.

Mr. Taffy is super cuddly when he first wakes up, but by the time I am driving him to work he gets really grouchy. I am always really excited and chatty lol. He also is pretty grouchy when he comes home from work… maybe because his commute is so short, it takes a while for him to de-stress.

I think he is still in shock about my worst housemate habit: I get scared of cleaning the fridge if there is something that needs to be thrown out, which is so gross and ridiculous, but I can’t help it! I think he is horrified lol.

 
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msashleymarie (message)  616 posts, Busy bee

Adorable analogy!! I love it! Congrats!

 
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Curlysue (message)  1,703 posts, Bumble bee

Oh how sweet :) My FI has to literally nudge me out of bed because until my feet hit the floor I don’t want to get up for anything. Love the photos and I love that one with your rings—very nice! For me, we have had a few moments where it’s a little frustrating (i.e. he can never-ever-remember to turn the light off in any room he leaves; if I’m very tired I get very grouchy and just need to hit the pillow or I get a little crabby). We work it out though and it’s fine. I think when people are right for each other it’s little moments like that which don’t put a bad dent in the relationship!

 
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Mrs. Yorkie (message)  1,291 posts, Bumble bee

Very sweet, Mrs. Bunny! Mr. Yorkie and I haven’t developed any blisters (yet!). We’re still having fun with the newness of it all. I fix our breakfast in the morning… He packs our lunch while I get ready for work. Like you wrote, “happy to be alive and in love.” :o)

 
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heather25
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heather25 (message)  2,355 posts, Buzzing bee

Hey bunny! Great pics. Where is your wedding band from?

 
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Vic004
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Vic004 (message)  804 posts, Busy bee

Lovely post, I am also a newlywed and you wrote about things so beautifully! Great looking pancakes too!

 
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tea
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tea (message)  7,263 posts, Bee Keeper

aww, what a cute post! here’s to when those shoes are perfect on your feet :-)

 
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Miss Star
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Miss Star (message)  2,057 posts, Buzzing bee

Such an adorable post! We already live together, so I’m looking forward to seeing how our new shoes fit post-purchase :)

 
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ejs4y8
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ejs4y8 (message)  14,581 posts, Bee Keeper

oh that’s so sweet!

For us, it’s like digging up an old favorite sweater since we used to live together, and haven’t since the military shipped him far far away and I stayed behind for work.

 
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Miss Buttons
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Miss Buttons (message)  5,045 posts, Bee Keeper

Awww I LOVE your bfast table…sounds yummy!

The FI and I are about to move to VA, and although we would have liked to avoid living together before we are married, with the economy being the way it is, it doesn’t make sense for us to have two separate leases, bills, etc…even though it isn’t the ideal situation, I am very very excited about living with him…I’m looking forward to breaking in the new pair of shoes for sure! Hope that you are still enjoying yourself! ;)

 
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j_nicolle
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j_nicolle (message)  212 posts, Helper bee

That’s very sweet of you to make him breakfast. I’m defiantly the grouchy morning person in our relationship… but FI gets up at 3 a.m. 5 days a week, where as I get to sleep in till 7 or so. I’ve actually kinda come to appreciate those few hours where I get to have the bed all to myself!

 
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Miss_Carmel
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Miss_Carmel (message)  316 posts, Helper bee

This is delicious, I want some!!

 
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slicey19 (message)  2,844 posts, Sugar bee

your pancakes look delicious! FI and i live together already, he is also not a morning person and I’m sad to say it is wearing off on me, watch out sleeping in and cuddling becomes so appealing.

 
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St. Patrick
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St. Patrick (message)  64 posts, Worker bee

fiestaware love!

 
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Miss Mary Jane
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Miss Mary Jane (message)  1,970 posts, Buzzing bee

I love your shoes analogy!!

 
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Mrs. Bunny, Columbus Age and Occupation: 24, Associate Editor/Reporter Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Reporter Engagement Date: September 23, 2008 Wedding Date: July 2009 Venue: Everal Barn, Westerville About Me: Organized, but messy. I love art (all kinds). I don't have any secrets. I talk a lot and listen even more. I show love by baking. I'm timid by nature, but brave when it counts. Mr. Bunny and I work at competing weekly newspapers, which makes it a little interesting trying to describe our work joys and frustrations without giving away too much before the paper comes out. In spite of that little hurdle, we've managed to build a pretty solid relationship in the short one-and-a-half years we will have been together when we tie the knot. I can't wait!

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