Day 4: How I have changed

The day before we moved to Illinois!

Derek and I moved to Illinois on July 29th, 2009.  Throughout our 2-1/2 years of living here I know that I have grown up since my days of living with my mom and dad.  I feel that I am able to have better conversations with my family, more adult and serious conversations.  Before moving I thought that I was a patient person and in reality I found out that after moving I have even more patience than what I thought.


Things I have learned:

• Grocery shopping can be therapeutic (if you know what you go to buy)
• Living away from home isn't so bad
• I hate vacuuming, hate it
• I keep a better house when I know we are expecting company
• I am much more responsible with money and keep getting better with it each day
• I am really bad at finding things to do.  Just because you move to a "big city" doesn't mean there will be things to do in said "big city".  Seriously, Derek and I go to a lot of movies and make weekly trips to the Goodwill and Salvation Army because I cannot find anything else for us to do.
• I did not know that it was possible to fall in love with somebody day after day

That's all I have for now as I have to finish up making some Christmas gifts.  Yes, Christmas gifts as we have yet to celebrate.