For those of you who follow us regularly, we’ve had an extremely busy last few weeks. So I took some time away from posting to focus on family and every day life around here. Between appointments for the boys, picking up a new evening routine, (we introduced library night and indoor playground night) my 37th birthday and our 10 year anniversary, it’s been really busy around here! Now that I’ve gotten caught up on life and my Bible Study lesson, I feel like I can write about our anniversary.
It’s been 10 years! Holy buckets that few by quickly! In these last ten years, we’ve purchased a home, sold cars, bought a car, changed churches, John graduated from college, we had two children and survived a house fire. One thing that has stayed the same through it all, we’ve kept God first. We both notice when we put ourselves/life/stuff before God things don’t go quite right. If God is first, things may not always go smoothly, but we’re better prepared to handle things when with God as our foundation.
If you were to ask me for marriage advice, I’m not going to tell you anything you haven’t already heard. When you get married, you’re no longer the only one you have to think about. There’s another person whose opinion and feelings you need to consider before making decisions. When you have children there are more feelings and more little people who come before your wants and desires because they have needs too. In short: marriage and family teaches you how to be selfless. Sometimes this part is easier for wives than husbands, but not always. Every couple is different.
So what do you do for a milestone anniversary? An overnight was out of the question as I’m still nursing our 15 month old over night. We opted for a date day. Which honestly was very welcomed because we haven’t been out of the house without kids in a very long time. We did what any normal couple would do without children: ran errands and ate copious am
ounts of sushi. There’s something so satisfying about sitting down to a meal and not having to listen to bodily functions and whining about bodily functions at the table, mixed with complaints about having to eat something a 3 year old would prefer not to eat. It was glorious. Many thanks to my sweet friend Megan for watching the boys while we took time to just be us.
Am I looking forward to the next ten years? You bet! I get to do life with John and we get to watch the two boys we brought into this family grow. Here’s to the next 10 years!