Trying to survive on little money

    At this point Nick and I are working, but the money we make is being spent quickly...or maybe not spent but needed to pay bills.  I came into our marriage without debit, he didn't...but that's not his fault, we needed to pay for the venue to get married.  So now we are $50 short of our rent due in the next couple days, needing to pay our water bill, soon will have electric bill, then so on and so on.  We plan on having money, extra money by September but it feels like a long ways away to be able to pay for some extra food or anything else that is extra.  But as we wait and figure this money thing out, we will pray and rely on God for the support.
    On Sunday my parents had a get together with their small group and thank goodness because I was able to take food home.  That fed Nick lunch and dinner yesterday and me dinner.  We still have more and I am so thankful for that.
    Last night Nick made spaghetti sauce in the Crockpot (which we use ALL the time!) but it came out a little...bitter (okay, burnt too).  We will soon see if the extra little spices we just added will be enough to make it good.  I hope so since I'm hungry and it took money to pay to make that sauce.  If its good, I will add the recipe, if its bad I wont talk about it again.

  I do have to thank God for the food though, I know there are people all over the world that are starving and I am not one of them...I'm just hungry.  Thank God everyday for the food you have on your table, in your fridge, on your counter and in your body!

Big Yummy Chocolate Chip Cookies

After our hamburger dinner -which was delicious thanks to the husband- I decided to make some cookies!  I took photos because I know everyone likes to see what they will look like. So here is the recipe, tweak it if you like, but I wouldn't as they came out perfect!

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (or which ever kind you like - I prefer dark)

Directions
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.


Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.

In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla and egg until light and creamy.

Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended.

Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon.

Drop cookie dough 1/4 cup (Yes that big! I actually used my new Martha Stewart measuring cup to scoop and drop the dough) at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets.(And of course I used my brand new Martha Stewart cookie sheet) Cookies should be about 3 inches apart.

 Bake for 17-20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted.

Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

This recipe made me 14 large cookies that smelt and tasted like the best cookies ever! I think I will be keeping this as my Go-To Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. It also didn't take me more than an hour to prepare and bake, woohoo!

Thank you to Grandma who bought Nick and I our fantastic Kitchen Aid Stand Up Mixer, first time using it and it made something delicious!!

I now bid you all a good night...

Our Vows

    Today I continued with my project of making our wedding album and our honeymoon album on Shutterfly.com.  So excited to see it all coming together (without photos, for now) but all the backgrounds and embellishments look so good together!

    As I was making the wedding album I decided that I would write our vows on the back so that it wasn't lost with the photos.  I love both of our vows because they came from the heart (well maybe not Nicks completely).  We decided that we were going to write our own vows without each others help so that it was more personal.  I wrote mine about 3, maybe 4 months before the wedding.  Nick on the other hand wrote his a week or less before the wedding.  That was okay because he forgot them at home anyway and said something off the top of his head...which made EVERYONE ball their eyes out.  All he said was "You are my best friend" and he broke down and cried his eyes out.  It was very memorable...but I wanted the real vows on my album.  So below you can read them :)

You are the one I want to spend the rest of my life with, my best friend.  Today, I take you as my Wife and I promise to love you, support you and be faithful no matter what happens.  I vow to honor you, cherish you, be worthy of your love, respect you and support you in every way I can, this day and for the years to come.

-Nicholas

My lover, my best friend, I promise to you from this day forward I will unconditionally respect and love you for who you are and not what I want you to be.  I want to take you as my Husband until my heart stops beating and until that day I will trust you and forgive you even when times are tough.  I hope that I can inspire you, but even if I cant I will support you, serve you and honor you at all times.  I will be patient and I will be faithful because you are the love of my life, the angel God sent to watch over me and my Husband from this day forward.

I love you, Amy

Married

    It has been 19 days since I got married to Nicholas Alton Hust Jr. and it doesn't feel different than dating.  We had been going out for 5 years and known each other for 6 1/2. I think we know each other so well, did all things with each other before marriage, that nothing really feels much different.  The things that are different are that; I have to clean (not too different from home), my mom doesn't make me dinner (I know how to cook, but Nick makes food for me anyway), I'm not sleeping alone (my little sister did sleep with me sometimes and so did my dog, so not too different) and we rely on each other for money instead of parents (he's already got that down, I mostly did).  So life isn't too different for me, which is good because I'm not good with change, but bad because a little more change would be more exciting. Crazy? I know!
    The thing that I did really struggle with was leaving home. I'm only 20 miles away, but I don't live with my family anymore, I don't see them everyday, I don't get to come home and veg out watching TV with my sister.  I was doing fine after the wedding -for about a day- until it all hit me and then came all the break downs. I felt bad for Nick when I would come in the room crying and saying I want to go home, especially when I did it on our honeymoon.  But that is me.  One of the times when on our honeymoon and crying on his shoulder I apologized for doing it and he said to me, "Well it is who you are and I did know you weren't going to change".  So true!
    So life, its different, its the same, its starting to get a little dull and I need something new to do with my time, so here I am...spilling my heart to anyone and everyone one day at a time.