Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Eight.

At one point I was an angsty teenager. I don't remember being angsty, but I do remember some things I said... and they were very angsty. (So at one point I must have been an angsty teenager.) When I was sixteen or seventeen I found my mom ironing my dad's shirts. He was busy- and just about to leave on a business trip. (I would have ironed them too had I not been so angsty.) But instead I told my mom I found it degrading for her to be ironing his shirts. "I will never iron my husbands shirts" I said. And then added "if I ever have one" because I was a gem. (If my children give me heck, I will know I had it coming.) I remember my mom laughing, and telling me she didn't mind ironing his shirts, at all. I remember trying to imagine a world in which I didn't mind ironing someone else's shirts... 


Years and years later I met Steve. And then I married him. And now it's been years and years since I married him. Eight to be exact! Sometimes I do laundry... and sometimes I find him sitting in a pile of laundry looking for stains before he puts our clothes in the washer. Sometimes I wash the sink full of dishes, and then sometimes I find him washing dishes side by side with Squish. Sometimes I vacuum all three floors of carpets, and then sometimes I come home from a run to find newly vacuumed carpets, and four freshly made beds. And sometimes I come downstairs after putting the last pirate to bed and find Steve ironing his shirts... 

The world we've created in the past eight years is more than anything I could have imagined. (So much more.) And if I should ever find a shirt he hadn't already ironed... I wouldn't mind doing the ironing for him. Not one bit. 

Happy Anniversary Steve! 
(It's been eight, but it feels like two...)

I love you!

4 comments:

  1. Love you guys! Happy anniversary! :) I feel like I've known you forever but the last 8 years have FLOWN by!

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    1. They have- and they keep coming too! I remember your seven year anniversary... and being amazed that you'd been married for SO LONG. ...And now here I am at eight. :) Time is a funny little thing!

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  2. Wow. I must've lost my brain. I did not remember at all that your anniversary was coming up! Happy eight years! What a great family you've built. I've loved being able to watch it grow via blog :) Y'all are wonderful.

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    1. I think that maybe you were busy having a baby, celebrating a birthday, and an anniversary of your own. :)

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