Last weekend we celebrated our 11 year anniversary. Well, we didn't really celebrate in BIG style. We ordered in Olive Garden and watched episodes of 24 (yes, still from this past season). The Rock Star Nurse then get all excited and asked me to come outside with him. He had a flashlight and a spray can. He wanted to know if I would hold the light for him while he sprayed for hornets?!
Are you kidding me?? After 11 years you don't realize that I'm petrified of bees?!
But he insisted this was fun....that this was "us"...that we always do things different...and this was a "different" way to celebrate:)
Perhaps he's right.
But 11 years made me stroll down memory lane quite rapidly. It doesn't take much for me to get all nostalgic. Anniversaries and birthdays quickly do that to you. After our hornet invasion, we sat on the couch and talked about the past.
We talked about our 1st apartment. And our 1st house. And when we had babies in the house.
I got all misty eyed and wished we could go back for just one day.
I love my life now...I do. But it did seem more simplistic then.
Then tonight I discovered I had archived some old photos in my online account. It didn't help my nostalgic triggers to see them again. And although I know this holds no memories for you, it indulges me:)
2003. The Ringleader was 22 months old and precious Sha Sha was just born. I wish so badly I could hold each of them right now at this age. Precious.
The day we brought Sha Sha home. I don't think we look old now, but wowsers...we look young then!
This is one of my favorite photos. It was 2005 when Sha Sha was 1 1/2 and The Ring leader was 3 1/2. I miss Sha Sha's red curls. She had the most gorgeous curly hair.
I've been thinking a lot about our tendancy to fall into the "grass is always greener" on the other side mentality. I know I fall into it over and over again. And someday a couple of years from now I will look at pictures from when my kids were 7, 6, 3, and 3 and want to be able to grab my kids out of the picture and hold them.
Silly thing is that they are here in front of me right now.
So somehow this post has gone from chasing hornets to embracing "the now". Didn't I just write on that a post or 2 ago? hmm...perhaps God is telling me something from my own writing (I truely don't hope that you think I have a plan when I write these posts:)
So I leave you with my newly acquired knowledge....
Embrace the now, but appreciate the past.
8 comments:
Happy Anniversary. May you have many more happy years together!
Congratulations! I can't believe that red hair! It's great.
So spraying bees isn't romantic for you??!! That sounds like something my hubby might try for our anniversary, too:) Congratulations on your 11 years together!! I loved the pictures!!
I was also reflecting back on your memorable wedding day which led me down Nostalgia Lane. I'm still wiping the tears. Where have the years gone??
Thanks so much for this post. I have not been doing that lately. I remember those days of simplicity and wish I could go back just for a bit. I will try this week to embrace the now and not wish for this time back too.
Congrats on the 11 yrs.
GREAT photos. And happy 11 years!
Happy 11 years to you! I actually reminded Cory last Saturday that it was your anniversary and I thought it was cool that your 11th anniversary on the 11th of July was on the same day you got married (Saturday). You know me - I am kind of a fanatic about numbers!
I love all your pictures ... I also love that I have been part of your life through all of these years!
Congrats!! 11 years is truly an accomplishment. Maybe you should plan the celebration for the 12th anniversary. ;)
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