Happily Ever After

This is what we look like today on our six year anniversary. Six years isn't quite Happily Ever After, but I think we are building a good foundation to that end. It has been an emotional week, and Erick and I nearly forgot our anniversary altogether! Fortunately, we remembered in time to recruit Mary to watch Sophia so we could have a little time away.

We had lunch at Sophia's/ - no, not a namesake either way. It was so nice to sit and chat and share a meal together. We discussed how much we enjoy one another's company, and how grateful we are for our friendship. Relationships are work, there is no doubt of that. But with work, marriage can be a fantastic endeavor. The best piece of marriage wisdom I've ever heard was from a professor and his wife just before we got married. "People always told us that marriage is hard. We have found that marriage isn't hard. Marriage is work, and LIFE is hard." I thought of that again as we drove through Broadway Village this afternoon. That is where we made our first home together six years ago. The tears that we shed in that home far outnumber the tears shed before or since. But it may always be our dearest home. It was within those walls that we really fell in love because we grew up. I discovered who I was, Erick discovered who he was, and in the process we fell in love with one another for who we are separately - not for what we are together. I am so grateful for those hard lessons, although I would love to have learned without them. Of course we also reminisced about the many, many good memories we made in 53C. Many of the readers of this blog were integral in making those memories.

Six years is not much in the scheme of things. Popo and Momo were married for sixty-six. Still, I am confident that during these six years of life together, we have been preparing ourselves to stand and thrive together for sixty more. I could not be more grateful for my friend and protector and husband.