Happy Anniversary To Us!
One year ago today, on the steps of the old Auburn courthouse in Auburn, California, Rand and I said our "I wills." I will love you, honor you, cherish you... from this day forward.
It's been the best year of my life. Filled with joys and challenges, family and living more intentionally, finding a regular routine and making the leap to a new calling.
This Sunday we will renew our vows in Wilmington, Ohio. We sat down with the pastor yesterday and went over the words of a typical vow renewal ceremony. While obviously meant for a couple who has been together many more years than we have, we were touched by the words and how much they resonated with our experience, especially over the past two months.
Since making the decision to move to Mexico we've changed everything from our names to our forwarding address. We've had bills and goodbyes to contend with. What to leave behind and what to take with us. Baby steps and big leaps to close doors and chapters in order to fully commit to our new beginning. And it hasn't been easy. It's been busy and overwhelming and frustrating and hard. Even though we are 100% committed to doing it together, we've found it difficult to put our relationship first. Even though we want to be intentional, when you are too busy and too overwhelmed, dealing with your own emotional fears and goodbyes, it can feel impossible.
Which is what makes this the perfect weekend to renew our vows. To show each other outwardly what we feel inwardly each and every day -- that there is no one else we'd want to take this leap with. That there's no one else we'd take this leap for. That through all the challenges we have faced, we've chosen each other, and through all of the challenges to come, we will continue to make that choice.
I'm so blessed that God brought this man into my life. And I can't wait to say "I will" once again. And again and again.
It's been the best year of my life. Filled with joys and challenges, family and living more intentionally, finding a regular routine and making the leap to a new calling.
This Sunday we will renew our vows in Wilmington, Ohio. We sat down with the pastor yesterday and went over the words of a typical vow renewal ceremony. While obviously meant for a couple who has been together many more years than we have, we were touched by the words and how much they resonated with our experience, especially over the past two months.
Since making the decision to move to Mexico we've changed everything from our names to our forwarding address. We've had bills and goodbyes to contend with. What to leave behind and what to take with us. Baby steps and big leaps to close doors and chapters in order to fully commit to our new beginning. And it hasn't been easy. It's been busy and overwhelming and frustrating and hard. Even though we are 100% committed to doing it together, we've found it difficult to put our relationship first. Even though we want to be intentional, when you are too busy and too overwhelmed, dealing with your own emotional fears and goodbyes, it can feel impossible.
Which is what makes this the perfect weekend to renew our vows. To show each other outwardly what we feel inwardly each and every day -- that there is no one else we'd want to take this leap with. That there's no one else we'd take this leap for. That through all the challenges we have faced, we've chosen each other, and through all of the challenges to come, we will continue to make that choice.
I'm so blessed that God brought this man into my life. And I can't wait to say "I will" once again. And again and again.
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