Life in the Real World--Year Three

Our first year of employment was a big transition for both of us. Ted had a lot to learn on the job, and preparing new lesson plans and keeping my high schoolers in line was challenging. Thankfully, we had a great place to live at the EDS corporate apartments with lots of fellow recent college graduates and free housekeeping! We combatted stress with frequent trips to Tom Thumb for free samples, movies at the new stadium theater, and inventing imaginary characters when we ran out of stories of our own. (You knew we were weird, but did you have any idea?) Another thing we loved doing together was teaching the three-year-olds at church. We happened to only have sweet, frilly girls in the class, and we loved spending time with them. Ted set his computer calendar to calculate how long we'd been married, and when we reached 1000 days, he sent me a beautiful bouquet of roses at work. The girls in my class thought he was extremely romantic when a few weeks later he sent another bouquet for our third anniversary.