Sara & Our Anniversary

So, busy weekend. Friday we took Sara down to see hubby’s Aunt and Uncle. They’re going to be watching her while we’re in Maine. Heh, actually, they’re watching her as we speak. Hubby had called them on Thursday to find out what time we should come down on Friday. During that conversation his Aunt suggested we bring all of Sara’s stuff with us and just leave her then if things went well. We’re not going to Maine until next weekend though. They had been hinting at wanting to keep her longer than just the days we were gone. They had a golden up until a year or so ago. She passed away from old age, they love goldens but don’t want to actually own another. They just want to babysit ours. 🙂 So we’re letting them keep her an extra 6 days. Of course, as we were leaving they were suggesting we could pick her up later in the week instead of Monday. I’m starting to wonder if we’re going to get our dog back at all!! 🙂 Sara did fine. She has her crate, several of her toys, her normal food bowls and such. She was happy to play with hubby’s Aunt and Uncle but seemed a little confused at the end when we were leaving. We called today though and she’s doing just great. They’re enjoying having her around. Our cats don’t miss her but we do. We’re glad she’s having fun though. Mostly I’m just really glad we have an EXCELLENT place to leave her when we go on trips.

Yesterday we had a wedding to go to at a butterfly conservatory. It was beautiful. I’m wishing I’d known about that place for our wedding. I have some pictures and stuff I can share but hubby has to go through them first. There are like 170 or so that he took.

Tomorrow is our 7th Anniversary! It doesn’t feel as if it’s been 7 years but it has. It’s been an amazing 7 years. When I moved here 7 years ago I really had no idea if this could really work. All I knew was that I was in love and that things really couldn’t get much worse than living with my dad and stepmother. Hubby and I had known each other for a couple years but it was all long distance. We had met in person all of 3 times before we got married. We’d spent all of about 3 weeks together. You can’t really learn a lot about a person in 3 weeks. We did talk a lot on the phone though, of course. We talked about everyday things and about the important stuff, about deal-breakers. We agreed on pretty much everything. Mostly we just had to learn how to live together. It was hardest for me, as an only child I never really shared MY space with anyone. It took some adjustment.

I feel lucky. It was just by chance that we met that day in a chat room. He stood out to me, he seemed different. I quickly learned that he was, that he was special. He wrote poetry, he was intelligent, well read, sweet. My favorite memory of our phone conversations was when he would actually read to me over the phone until I would start to doze. Now I am able to lay in his arms while he reads to me. 🙂

It’s been an amazing 7 years. As time passes I only fall more and more in love with my husband. Life gets more and more great. Just when I think things can’t get better and that I love as much as I can I find things getting better and myself loving more. Truly amazing.

I look around at my life sometimes and think about what if I’d done something different? What if I’d listened to the people who told me moving here was stupid. I look at my husband, my cats and Sara and I can’t imagine life without any of them. Not moving here, not taking that chance, that would have been stupid.

Aa’ menle nauva calen ar’ ta hwesta e’ ale’quenle
May thy paths be green and the breeze on thy back