Crazy In Love

Two weeks ago Noah and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary.  We didn’t do anything fancy, just went to lunch at Olive Garden and took Johnny to Toys R Us to get him some new toys.  It was a really nice & pleasant day.

It got me thinking… SIX YEARS?  Seems like a lot but at the same time it feels like we’ve been married much longer than that.  When you figure… we spent the first 10 months doing a long distance/commuting relationship from 850 miles apart, a whole year apart due to the deployment, lived in 3 houses together, moved 4 times… but I guess that was really all in the first three years of our marriage.  It has definitely been nice being in one place for the last three years; it has been great being TOGETHER for the last three years.  It just feels like we’ve lived a lifetime together already, and maybe we have.  Together we have accomplished so much — from our multiple and on-going home improvements, to the easy way we go through the day-to-day joys and hiccups of life, and lest we not leave out our greatest accomplishment of all: our amazing son.

Life together hasn’t gotten boring… it feels like we’re always readjusting to new things.  At first it was the “honeymoon phase” and adjusting to life together but apart; there was then the adjustment to being together at last but so far from family and friends; we adjusted to life on separate continents; we embraced our move to our very own home but had to learn how to live together again after being a year and worlds apart; life settled down for once into the mundane stresses of work, school, and wanting to start a family; we loved the pregnancy and Noah seemed happy to make daily trips to the next town over to bring me whatever I was craving at work; and for the last 7 months we’ve had the best and most challenging adjustment of all which is obviously life with our baby and learning to do the parenting dance.  It’s been a long and sometimes bumpy road but generally we’ve had good weather and few stops for repairs along the way.

There is a song that I came to love years ago, it’s called “Life’s A Dance.” I didn’t know it until years after first enjoying the song that the lyrics are so true: “Life’s a dance, you learn as you go.  Sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow. …”  Life really is like a dance… grab your partner and go, trying not to trip the other or fall over yourself, and all the while holding onto one another.  It’s nice.
I am blessed to have found my perfect partner so early in life.  How many people meet their soul mate when they’re 13?  There is no one I would rather snuggle up with, parent with, or be in love with.

Life’s a dance you learn as you go / Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don’t worry about what you don’t know / Life’s a dance you learn as you go

The longer I live the more I believe / You do have to give if you wanna recieve
There’s a time to listen, a time to talk / And you might have to crawl even after you walk
Had sure things blow up in my face / Seen the longshot, win the race
Been knocked down by the slamming door / Picked myself up and came back for more

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