How newlyweds can go from yearning for home to crafting a new one
“So there I was in this brand-new place… I didn’t know anyone, I had a new job I’d started two days after sheva brachos, and I was trying to figure out how to be a wife. It was very intense,” she says. “We were going to be paying for our groceries and our rent. My husband was still in school, so it was all on me. I had to hustle.”
On top of these serious adult responsibilities, everything was new to her. Managing a house was brand new. Cooking was brand new. Being in a relationship was brand new. It was a lot. “I struggled with housekeeping a lot, which is so funny because I lived in a literal shoebox. It was so tiny, but somehow so hard to keep clean. And we were only two people! But you still have to clean the bathrooms, you still have to do the dishes. It’s never-ending.”
Another challenge was making supper. “That definitely didn’t take off for a while,” Tirtza laughs. “That was probably my biggest struggle, getting the groceries and figuring out what to make, and it actually coming out edible.”
Once, she tried to make meat pizza. “The recipe said to choose your own deli, sauté it with onions or something, pick your two favorite sauces, mix them, and then put it on the dough. I thought, ‘Great, what could go wrong?’ My husband likes barbecue sauce and hot sauce, so I took equal parts of barbecue sauce and hot sauce and put them on a pizza dough. It was so spicy it wasn’t edible!”
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