Christmas and New Years of 2019 passed by in a blur. Then 2020 started. Now, I’ll do my best to not wax poetic about how 2020 provided innumerable challenges; I know it was ridiculously challenging for basically EVERYONE. Thus, I will skip all of the flowery language about how hard it was getting through that crazy year. All I will […]
The Year the World Turned Upside Down: Pt. I
Naples, Pt. II
Before we moved from Jacksonville, I found out I was pregnant! In the very beginning, pre-move, I honestly enjoyed my pregnancy. I experienced some of the typical symptoms, like tiredness, occasional mild bouts of morning sickness, but nothing too extreme. After I finally got to tell Frank, I couldn’t help myself and I started telling everyone. During that last week, […]
Back to the Homeland – Florida
By now you are probably thinking, “They sure seem to move a lot…they just can’t seem to settle down in one place…what’s their deal?” We have an abundance of reasons and responses to those comments, but I will boil it down to one fundamental principle. From the absolute beginning, we agreed to share a life of adventure. We know that […]
Chicago, Chicago
We Love Chicago, plain and simple. We just keep coming back to this exhilarating city, time and time again. In fact, Chicago has featured in every major stage of our relationship! We visited Chicago for the first time when we were dating, when I came up from Gainesville with Frank to meet his parents. We took a quick day trip, […]
Childhood Dream: Achieved
Newlywed bliss did not last long for us. As many are aware, moving in together is a huge adjustment! Though we saw each other every single day during our engagement, things changed immediately after that blissful honeymoon. Frank went back into a job he tolerated (at best). I continued working a part-time job at a retailer and tried to learn […]
Where It All Began
First Stop – Toledo In 2015, a few months after Frank and I (Julia) got engaged, I moved from Gainesville, Florida to Toledo, Ohio, to get to know Frank’s family a little better. I moved in with his parents in Toledo’s suburb of Sylvania because it was important to us that we not live together at first, but we did […]