Today we celebrate 8 years of marriage. It’s actually really hard for me to believe it’s been that long and really we’ve only still just begun. My parents just celebrated their 35th last year and Justin’s parents are celebrating their anniversary today also… 42 years! I’ve been feeling a little nostalgic this last week… maybe it was my chat session with Erika about my career at the Florida DMV but I keep thinking about our early years of marriage. They were so different than these years. We are so very tied up with little ones and little did we know or understand the freedom that we once had. Sometimes we wish for a quiet evening and sometimes we laugh our heads off at our children and wonder what on earth we did before they were around. There’s no doubt our lives are richer and deeper because of children but also busier and a little more chaotic.
We spent the first couple years of our married lives at 1110 Pine Street, it was a smaller 2 bedroom house without a dishwasher and only 4 cabinets but we loved it and our neighborhood and our neighbors! Justin was in grad school at FSU and I worked long hours at the Florida DMV and have many stories to share for another time. Life seemed simpler then but life seems richer now and I wouldn’t change anything along the way. I love my husband, being married to him isn’t always easy and I know he’d say that about me too. I’m almost convinced that being married in general is hard. But I am thankful that he is who the Lord had for me and for our children. He’s a wonderful husband and a wonderful father!! And I love him with all my heart.
This our dog, Eufaby, she’s been with us since the very beginning…
And we both hope she’s with us for many more, even if she does sneak food from the table, open the “Simple Human” trash can with her paw and pull everything out.
In other news, Spring is peeking through the dreary days of winter and we’ve been outside a lot… getting dirty.
I want share this little man’s recent antics…
He cries at night… a lot.
He cries at night until we get him out of his bed.
I try to let him cry it out until I think I might lose my mind.
Then we console him and bring him to our room and lay him down between us.
Then he giggles uncontrollably for about 5 minutes.
While we shake our heads and try to decide if he’s thinking, “I love my mom and dad so much I can’t contain myself” or if it’s more of, “They’re such suckers they fell for me again!”.
Either way his uncontrollable giggles absolutely crack us up, even at 2:45 am BUT I do hope that it is short lived.
And last but not least. I hate television. My children don’t hate television but really don’t watch that much {which is relative, I’m sure} but when they do this is how I find them… zoned and oblivious to the world around them.
I’m thinking of having a completely “unplugged” summer. Anybody want to join me? I’m not willing to give up DVDs and movies but daily cartoons {even educational ones}… yes. Because minutes can quickly turn to hours and they never want to turn it off. Anyway, I’m thinking about it and have almost convinced myself that we will be almost completely TV-free this summer.
My kiddos love their morning cartoons but I’m thinkin that they can find something else that they love even more. 
Three years later, my younger daughter was of the size to wear the shirt and I read on the www that MOS took it out, and SURE ‘NUF!!! it did! Just thought I’d share…
) Happy Anniversary to y’all!
Still, embarrassing! I love your and Erika’s blogs and read every single post. Thanks for the fun glimpse back at how your marriage began!
