The DeLew Happenings

It's Saturday morning and I'm drinking French Press coffee, listening to John Coltrane, and staring out the window at the dismal 'wintery-mix'. What a perfect day to catch up on the New DeLew's most recent happenings? (mind you, I am intentionally choosing not to make this post about the [insert inappropriate language here] weather this weekend, so take that Chicago!).

-NYC Baby! Two weekends ago Mark and I had the incredible chance to explore New York for a long weekend, traversing around Manhattan like it was our job. We met up with some awesome college friends, and we even brought along a personal photographer (Chucky rocks!). It totally works out to be good friends with a budding professional photographer, we're always his guinea pigs, as you can see in these sweet pictures. And we contribute to his photography endeavors by lugging his huge tripod and 100 lb camera throughout the entire city.

-Goodbye Whipple, Hello Medill! We came to the exciting decision to move out of our lovely newly-wed apartment and try out the first floor of a classic Chicago brick two-flat apartment. For the same price that we pay now, we're only two blocks from the El and we'll have two bedrooms! So come on over and visit! You'll actually have a bed to sleep on.

-Sportsy Couple- We've decided that this summer we want to be a 'sportsy couple'. This means we plan to be that couple that bikes to work and runs after work. Yeah... we're hard core. But first I need to get a bike wheel, since it was stolen last year. Punk kids.

-Wine- we've decided to decrease our daily wine intake. Partly so that we can be less of the 'wine couple, and more of the 'sportsy couple'. But don't worry, there is still a plethora of vino at the DeLews.

-California- Next weekend Mark has a bunch of work presentations on the west coast so I'm going along to spend the weekend in California with my beloved family. I can handle this horrible snow today, because next weekend we'll be in the beautiful sunshine of my homeland.

-Zambia- And lastly, we are always thinking up ways to get back to Zambia. We dream about living in my host family's guest house and working with the school where I taught 2 years ago. Although we love our new life together in Chicago, our hearts long to be in the community of Musonda, where we feel called.

We've almost hit our 10 Monthiversary. It's amazing to see how much we have learned about each other in these months. And I can't even imagine how much we'll learn about each other in the next 30 years. We are very thankful.