I just wanted to take a quick break to share this personal thank you, since you guys have been with me since the start of our apartment move. (And then I promise to hush about this move of all moves.) This week has been tough: we experienced a succession of bad news.
+ The movers lost our sofa cushions (not the decorative ones, the ones you sit on) — oh and Room & Board has discontinued our sofa's fabric so you'll be seeing another before + after sometime soon.
+ Our stinky landlord won't give us back our security deposit. We're fighting it.
+ I jinxed myself earlier in the week by saying the wait to move in to the new apartment was finally over. It's not. We have to wait at least another two weeks. That makes our grand total of living out of a duffel bag at friends' apartments = one month.
I've learned a lot about myself in the last week. Things like: I'm more attached to my stuff than I'd like to admit, and I have a hard time functioning without a home base. And I'm persistent, in a good way, when it comes to scoring money back from bad movers who lost our sofa cushions. So rather than continue to wallow in how hard this month is turning out to be, I want to channel that feeling I had in the photo above (right before I walked down a grassy path in Maine to marry Dan.) That feeling that I have a home wherever Dan is. And I'm really thankful for that and this as well:
+ thank you to our friends Scott + Kelly and Ali + Kevin who have been so incredibly sweet in letting us crash with them during our nomadic month. You guys are amazing and generous and we've been having so much fun being roomies with you. I think apartment sharing with couples should be the new trend. And thank you to friends and family for offering up their homes to us. We feel really lucky and loved.
+ I also received some serious blog love this week. Thanks to Alyson of Unruly Things for naming me blog of the week! A big thanks to Apartment Therapy's the Kitchn — I feel so honored to be a delicious link on a site I admire. I got a Lemonade Stand award thanks to Alek (who knew I had enough lemons this week to make lemonade!) And thanks to my super cute friend Susan at Lucky Magazine for the sweet shoutout — you made my day! (Susan and I used to have offices across from one another, and I swear she wears a cute outfit everyday.)
+ thank you for coming here and sharing your thoughts, support, and sweet comments. I've really loved reading everyone's comments and emails, and during this tough move, they've been such a pick-me-up.
+ and finally, I wanted to say a special thank you to my super husband, because I have been undeniably cranky through this ordeal. In true Dan style, he's managed to sail through this mess without a meltdown. Whereas I've sometimes caught myself thinking that this can't be happening this month because this is the only June we'll have in our first year of marriage, like I'm being robbed of the time because things aren't falling into place perfectly. But what I've come to realize: this is what our June is supposed to be. And the imperfections make it all deliciously real and make us stronger. I would have cracked a hundred times over if it weren't for you, Dan. And in a weird way, I love how we always have the worst historic moves — I guess that's our special thing. And it makes for a good laugh once we've made it through.
{photographs, from our Maine wedding, by the fantastic Charlotte Jenks Lewis}