May was a month of dealing with change. But for the first time, it wasn’t a completely aversive experience for me.
I’m a control freak. Everyone who knows me knows that. I actually had a professor start laughing once when she was reading out the personality characteristics for A-type personality and said “So, Rebecca.” (It was a small class, we were all friends, it was funny.)
But May has been a big season of change. In fact, this whole year or two have been. Only a brief 17 months ago I wasn’t even engaged–now I’ve been married for almost a year.
May was a pretty big shift for me, though, even more so than a lot of the marriage stuff was. I pretty much knew what to expect with that, to be honest. This month I graduated school (minus one course–finishing that up this summer but it’s online so I consider myself graduated from school in the sense that I’ll never sit in another undergrad level classroom again), Connor quit his job so now I’m the sole breadwinner so he can do full-time school this summer, and I started my first real career. It is insane. Plus, we moved, so now I have this new place to take care of. [Read more…]