The First Post!

Hi everyone! Welcome to our blog. Well, for now, it's just my blog because Abram doesn't know about it yet. Hee hee.... About 4 months before we got married (that would also be a month before we even got engaged) my now sister-in-law told me that when I married into the Joslin family I was going to have to make a blog. It's just what is expected! I told her that her brother probably would say he didn't want one and I was indeed right. But after he signed with the Army National Guard and we knew he would leave for training I thought that I could secretly start one while he was gone. Almost as if he read my mind, he asked about 3 days before he left if I was going to start a blog while he was gone! I can't remember my answer but here I am, starting it.

Abram and I were married on July 8th of this year and almost everything has been perfect since then! The only flaws have been a lack of money and the fact that he is now gone for 10 weeks. We are much happier when we are together rather than apart but really, what's a few weeks? We made it through a two-year geographical separation before we were married and it worked out just fine.

As I said before, Abram is a soldier in the Army National Guard. He is currently at his basic training and in January will return after the Christmas break for his individual training in engineering - heavy construction. When all of that training is done in the spring he will be ready to go back to school next fall. He plans to study German and history and will probably be stuck in school for about three more years to finish that. I am in my last year at Arizona State in Music Education. I am super excited that this is my last semester of classes and will be able to just student teach in the spring before finally earning that piece of paper that says I have a skill and can get a job now. I stay busy outside of school with teaching private piano and violin students, playing concerts and weddings and church services around the Phoenix area, and teaching theater classes at a local youth theater. I love my work!

Well, that's a good start for those of you reading. Many of you probably knew most of that already but for those of you that learned something new I hope it was worthwhile. I'll be back later with more Joslin happenings both here at home in Tempe and over at the military base in Missouri!