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The Wedding and Our First Month of Marriage

We've been married a little over a month now... I've been finishing up my last two classes at school and will graduate in less than two weeks! Since I'll be graduating with a Masters, I tell David he's going to have to start calling me Master. He just laughs at me. He knows he has the upper hand because of the pact he made a few weeks ago with my Dad... When my Dad was in town, they agreed that they weren't going to call their wives Master, ever, even though my mom and I will both have Masters when I'm done. David and I have only been married about a month and already David's making pacts with my family members! Once, I came home from classes only to find David chatting on the phone with my Mom about "secret things". I never know exactly what I'm going to come home to.  David actually graduated a couple days before we got married... So now.... He's my house-husband.  ...I love it. Most days when I come home fr...

Mr. D. and Mrs. M, The Meaning Behind The Name of Our Blog

David and I met last July in Dallas, Texas. He was there on a summer internship with Capital One, and I was there for three weeks with an IT consulting firm, Pariveda. For my temporary stay in Dallas, I brought along with me a coworker whose name was also David. Him and I worked together on a few projects for Pariveda. We would drive home together in our rental car and I would tell him about guys I liked and he would tell me about the cute things his daughter did.  I met my David that first Sunday in Dallas and my coworker David offered me some helpful advice on how to get David to be more interested in me. After saying a few words to David about David, we were both obviously super confused and my coworker David told me that we needed to come up with a better name for this David if I wanted to keep talking about him. We agreed to start calling him Mr. D. About every day my coworker David would ask me about Mr. D and how Mr. D was doing. This solved our problem, a...