A good day to have

Today marked the anniversary of two separate, but (very) related events. One month ago my family of three began a new adventure. Eleven years ago my family of two was created.

Eleven years of a marriage is both an eternity and a blink of the eye. We have traveled the world while maintaining our homebody dispositions. We have stayed one another’s very best friends, and in fact had to create a whole new person in order to find someone else who completely understood us. Even he thinks we are pretty silly.

One of the difficult parts of our marriage is the amount of time we spend apart from one another, but we have found many ways to deal with the individual portions of our lives. The realities of Wendall’s profession are with us every single day, and they bring us to the other anniversary celebrated today.

Our lives have been made richer by one another and by the events and people who have touched us in the past. Wendall and I have been the recipients of so much love and joy and care. Those of you who are reading this are a part of our world. No matter where on Earth we may live, no matter what events have kept us away from you (or each other) please know that we carry you with us in our hearts.

This latest journey has felt a little lonely. With everything happening with our families in the States, it has been difficult to look ahead to what the next few years will contain. It is easier now, as the drama dies down, but still we find ourselves looking back, wishing we were closer and able to help.

This weekend we spent our time exploring our new surroundings and getting ready to truly call this new place “home”. We took a walking tour of Vilseck and found a Thai restaurant (the best possible way to make me feel “all better”) in a town just 20 minutes away. We will keep looking for a Thai restaurant which meets our standards, but it was a good way to celebrate the day.

Thanks, all, for being a part of a special time in our lives!