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Year 10: Letter to my Newly Married Self

Recently there have been a handful of the various bloggers I follow that have been prompted to write a letter to their 20-year-old self. I love this idea. However, when I think about writing a letter to my 20-year-old self the only message I can think of is: “um, good luck.” My 20s were, quite [...]

Year 9, Reclaiming the Little Things

Last Wednesday was Steve and I’s 9th wedding anniversary. And, being that we met in August of 1987, that brings our sum total of knowing each other up to a whopping 22 years. Twenty. Two. Years. I find it disturbing that I can say that I have done anything for 22 years. There was a [...]

Year 8: Coming Home

Today is Steve and I’s 8th wedding anniversary. 8 years. We are officially at that point in our relationship where there aren’t a whole lot of surprises. In fact, I would be willing to wager that if we were to enter the guess-what-your-doorknob-touching-spouse-is-going-to-say-next tourney, we’d be easily advancing to the finals about now. It’s that [...]

Good-Bye B, Hello One Eleven

Hi Everyone. My sincerest apologies for being absent during such a monumentally bloggable period of our lives. When, in the period of one month you are tasked at selling a house, buying a house, installing over 1000 square feet of wood flooring, packing, moving, having ear tubes installed, keeping a 3-year-old from completely freaking out [...]

Year 6: Cast Iron and Candy, and the realization that we spend so much time together we can’t even come up with an original thought.

It took a few minutes to sink in, but when the woman working at the counter where I bought Steve’s anniversary gift said, “Wow! This is the second one of these I have sold today!” I realized that I KNEW who that other person was. Sad. Just sad. This is what knowing someone for over [...]