Meet the McGregors

In my first post, I mentioned that Mondays would be all about meal prepping. However, this weekend we painted our master bedroom and bathroom in preparation for our new furniture that should be arriving in the next few weeks. Once all of that was finally finished at about 3:00 Sunday afternoon, spending several hours in the kitchen was the last thing I wanted to do. I did manage to throw some lunches together for Nick with some things I had in the fridge and pantry. I have 2 days of staff development this week which means 2 days of having a 1-hour lunch break. {Outside of school. In a restaurant. With only adults.} So meal makin' for myself wasn't so necessary this week. For dinners this week, I'm taking from my pre-made freezer stash that I haven't fully depleted yet. {Be on the lookout for a freezer cooking post!}

So instead of Meal Makin' Monday, today is Meet the McGregors Monday!

Obviously if you are reading this, you know one or all of us, but I thought I'd tell you a little bit more about us, some of our methods, and what makes us 'us'. 

Nick and I met during April of our freshman year at Texas A&M University. We lived one floor apart from each other in the same dorm all year but did not meet until our mutual friends introduced us. He had me with the first four words I ever heard him say, "What's up, I'm Nick." The day after meeting Nick, I told my friend that I would marry him one day. We hit the ground running on April 14, 2005 and never looked back. That's the McGregor Method... 

We were married in March 2009 on Friday the 13th even though some people thought we were crazy. Not believing in bad luck, but believing that you make your own luck, that's the McGregor Method...

In August 2011, our world became better than we had ever known when we laid eyes on our precious daughter for the first time. Loving someone from the moment you meet them, that's the McGregor Method...

After 5 years of marriage and 9 years of living life together, he still makes me laugh until I cry at least once a day. We know what methods work for us and what methods work our family. I know that unless something is on his calendar, it ain't happening or I never told him about it. So I send him text messages or give him a handwritten note with his upcoming "Nick-tenarary" items and he puts them in his calendar in his own way. That's his method and I respect it. He knows that I will prepare a weeks worth of meals in one day, but sometimes I can't seem to put my shoes on the shoe rack or my dirty clothes in the hamper. That's my method. He respects it and bought a house with two separate master closets. That's the McGregor Method...

Even our 2.5 year old has her own methods. Every day we see a little bit of me and a little bit of him in her. We can't wait to watch that little personality develop over time. Laying all of your babies, animals, blocks and flash cards face down in a pile and patting each one of them until they go night night, that's the McGregor Method...

 

As the saying goes, "We may not have it all together, but together we have it all." 

That's the McGregor Method...