介绍： 027 | In Marriage, Beware of Big Boxes

In any marriage, even the best marriage, there will come a day when you wonder why you married this person.

It's hard to fathom at your wedding. This handsome, tuxedoed man is publicly binding his life to yours, and you think, "It would have to snow inside my house bef...

介绍： 027 | In Marriage, Beware of Big Boxes

In any marriage, even the best marriage, there will come a day when you wonder why you married this person.

It's hard to fathom at your wedding. This handsome, tuxedoed man is publicly binding his life to yours, and you think, "It would have to snow inside my house before I would ever feel anything but love for this man."

Well, it snowed inside my house.

I am not saying that metaphorically. I am telling you it snowed inside my house, because a few years ago, to kick off the holiday season, my husband, Ian, decided (even though we didn't have kids yet, even though I never said I missed snow) that I would enjoy a snow machine.

And it wasn't flaky snow. Not that I would have enjoyed flaky snow, but Ian did admit later he thought it would be flaky. That's the problem with ordering things like a snow machine online. You never can be sure if the snow will be just mildly annoying or marriage-ending annoying.

Instead, the snow was sudsy, like a washing machine was overflowing in our upstairs loft and spewing suds down into the living room, where I was flipping through a magazine in front of the fire, having been instructed not to peek while Ian set up The Big Surprise.

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