Sunday is our one year anniversary. Hurray for us!! It has been quite a year. For everyone who told us that the first year of marriage is hard, no matter how long you'd been together before, harder than you could guess, you were right. And for everyone who told us that marriage is better that you think and more rewarding than you could guess, you were right, too.
By nature, I am a list maker and so, here is a partial list of things I've learned this year:
1. My handsome prince is a kinder person than I realized.
2. I am a harsher woman than I realized. And tougher than I ever wanted to be.
3. I can also be more sympathetic and more understanding than I thought.
4. I am a terrible housekeeper. If someone else will do it, then I will let them.
5. My friendship with my husband is better now than ever.
6. Our friendship is the best thing we've got because it makes everything else we've got better.
7. My HP is not very good at pretending he cares about knitting. Sometimes, though, he stops at the yarn stores when we are running errands and he doesn't ask how long I will be or how much I will spend. This is enough.
8. Until we got married, I was ambivalent about having kids. Not so much anymore.
9. Even though people warned me in advance that marriage is hard, I didn't believe them. Now I do.
10. There have been days that I wanted to drive away and not look back. There have been a lot fewer of those days this year than in years past.
11. I'm glad I married him. I'm glad he married me.
Here we are, November 20, 2004.
2 comments:
ooo i can see the pic now. I wanted those colors in my wedding flowers but then the wedding wound up being August 6th instead of September or October and I got pink and white instead. :-p Beautiful!!
My wedding was June 25th. Coming up on the 5 month anniversary. I don't know off the top of my head how many I have left, but I had 6 showers and 350 people at the wedding.... so there were quite a few gifts :) I will count tonight and let you know.
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