The fact that our one year anniversary is tomorrow morning (or a mere 30 minutes after I get home from work tonight) is really incredible to me. To think I've been married to the love of my life for a year, already?! How lucky am I? No one ever wants to complain or rant about how awful things are going or about the fight that they had that night--but pretending they don't happen makes you seem out of touch with reality or worse, unaware of human emotions other than your own. Youch. 

I'd never claim that the hubbs and I haven't squabbled a bit this past year but we've learned so much from our disputes that I (though I do this with quite a bit of hesitation) am glad we had those "flare ups" because it helped us understand each other which was obviously something that we needed to do more of because if we had understood one another perfectly there wouldn't have been a disagreement. Right? Please don't take that blurb as my declaration of our marriage as full of "flare ups" and disagreements that we learned from because those really are just little asterisks next to a few of the sentences in the first chapter (part 2: marriage) in the story of our lives. If you let a little dispute ruin what you have then perhaps it is the running theme of your story but if a hiccup happens then you cover your mouth and move on--making sure to remember how you calmed the hiccups down and how to prevent them in the future. 

So many wonderful things happened on this day last year and so many not-so-wonderful things as well. Luckily, both the Hubbs and I were too blissfully excited about the forthcoming day that we disregarded most, if not all, of the "not-so-wonderful things" and just enjoyed the wonderful ones--making them even MORE wonderful to us. I believe that's how we've lived our marriage. Not ignorantly enjoying the "wonderful things" while being blissfully "unaware" of the "not-so-wonderful things" but rather deciding that the wonderful things matter most, to both of us, and deciding to only focus on those things. I'm glad that we've been able to do that together and I believe that our decision has truly effected us in a way that only true happiness can--bringing permanence to a shared moment of wonder and joy. I'm so glad we were able to spend October 13th 2010 together, marking the true beginning of our literal journey together and finding happiness the entire way there. 

What a terrific journey it's been so far. October 13th 2010 will forever hold a dear place in my heart; I'm so lucky to be in love with my best friend and that we began this journey together to eternity then.

All you need is love.

The fact that our one year anniversary is tomorrow morning (or a mere 30 minutes after I get home from work tonight) is really incredible to me. To think I've been married to the love of my life for a year, already?! How lucky am I? No one ever wants to complain or rant about how awful things are going or about the fight that they had that night--but pretending they don't happen makes you seem out of touch with reality or worse, unaware of human emotions other than your own. Youch. 

I'd never claim that the hubbs and I haven't squabbled a bit this past year but we've learned so much from our disputes that I (though I do this with quite a bit of hesitation) am glad we had those "flare ups" because it helped us understand each other which was obviously something that we needed to do more of because if we had understood one another perfectly there wouldn't have been a disagreement. Right? Please don't take that blurb as my declaration of our marriage as full of "flare ups" and disagreements that we learned from because those really are just little asterisks next to a few of the sentences in the first chapter (part 2: marriage) in the story of our lives. If you let a little dispute ruin what you have then perhaps it is the running theme of your story but if a hiccup happens then you cover your mouth and move on--making sure to remember how you calmed the hiccups down and how to prevent them in the future. 

So many wonderful things happened on this day last year and so many not-so-wonderful things as well. Luckily, both the Hubbs and I were too blissfully excited about the forthcoming day that we disregarded most, if not all, of the "not-so-wonderful things" and just enjoyed the wonderful ones--making them even MORE wonderful to us. I believe that's how we've lived our marriage. Not ignorantly enjoying the "wonderful things" while being blissfully "unaware" of the "not-so-wonderful things" but rather deciding that the wonderful things matter most, to both of us, and deciding to only focus on those things. I'm glad that we've been able to do that together and I believe that our decision has truly effected us in a way that only true happiness can--bringing permanence to a shared moment of wonder and joy. I'm so glad we were able to spend October 13th 2010 together, marking the true beginning of our literal journey together and finding happiness the entire way there. 

What a terrific journey it's been so far. October 13th 2010 will forever hold a dear place in my heart; I'm so lucky to be in love with my best friend and that we began this journey together to eternity then.

All you need is love.