image After the Alter is a blog about my "life after the alter" meaning after being married, and the changes that go with it. I love being married, and here I share stories of my life as I learn how to be the best wife I can be and all my crazy thoughts along the way.

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Am I Really That Horrible of a Wife?

I will admit here and now that I really want to be a good wife. I try to be as domestic as I can, and I honestly do care about what my husband wants. Post college I finally realized what I was meant to do with my life, and that was to be [...]

The Reign of Captain Awesome!

In the spirit of Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City, I wanted to give my husband a blogging name. I always refer to him as “my husband” this and “my husband that”, but I wanted to do something a little more fun. I needed my own Mr. Big. I thought about it a very [...]

Enough With The Socks!!!

I Love my husband. He is an amazingly wonderful man. We each have our quirks and things that we do to annoy each other, but this is my blog so I get to complain about it here all I want….What’s up with the stupid black socks stuffed into the couch! Enough with the socks already!!!!

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Independent Woman

When I graduated from college, I never had the opportunity to move back home and and save money like most of my friends did. My husband was still in college, and I decided, that in order to make our relationship work, that I would rent an apartment on Long Island so that we could be [...]

Being Thankful

 In today’s world it is easy to get caught up in the things that make people sad. It is easy to be down on yourself because of the economy, your job, and your surroundings. Money is tight for many and this makes you cut back on entertainment things that are enjoyable. But personally I think [...]

Snow Day Townhouse Style!

shoveling neighbors

Our house!

Living in a townhouse community has it’s ups and it’s downs, but one of the major perks is knowing that when it snows someone else is in charge of plowing and shoveling us out!

 
Here is our house! March certainly came in like a lion this year and dumped about 8-12″ of snow [...]

Martooni Thursday

I believe the tradition started out back when I graduated college and my husband still had one more year. Since then it has morphed and changed to what it is today. Back in the day, Thursday nights were a big college night out. Being that I was no longer an undergrad, I felt it wasn’t [...]