Today

Today is October 12th 2009.

7 Years since I married the man of my dreams.

7 Years since we made a full time family for my boy, and at the time our 5 week old baby girl.

7 Years.

In that time we...

well we had just purchased our house 6 months before, upgraded our car- from a 1980 Cavalier to a 2001 Cavalier- just 3 months before, and had a baby 5 weeks before...

So since then we have...

• upgraded to a van


• had another baby


• changed Matthews schools


• Sold a house


• moved in with my parents (re think this next time)


• bought a house


• moved clear across the city from everything we know


• tinkered in renovating our fantastic house


• got Stephanie into school


• upgraded our van to one that runs


• worked at the school


• girls started daycare


• got Sarah into school


• And now it is my turn to go to school

So that's just the monumental material/family stuff. That's not the gory details. We have loved and laughed really hard. Shared in the great moments. Watched each other learn to love a little girl, then very quickly, another one. We have watched our children through the trials of their lives. Learned to cope with then have fun with the challenges that Sarah has gone through and still lives with. We have floundered in change. We have had heated moments of "what the hell are we doing?" And we have stumbled through them. We have stumble, and fallen, and used our love and faith in one another to get back up. We have made it to this point. And I am confident that we will make it beyond.

But it all takes work. From both of us. The beginning was all compromise. I had to learn to go out and have fun. He had to learn to stay home and have fun. I needed to lighten up. He had to meet me somewhere in the middle on that one. But we do it. That's our jobs.

So Happy 7th wedding anniversary to us!