Even if I only post here once a year, I will always be glad I did. I'm sitting at work (E.A.S.) thinking about how I could be using my time better. And what a better way than jotting down a few memories before they fade. So, we are married, and life is good, and life is hard. This past year has been great. The wedding was beautiful (it rained, everyone bailed and no bocce was played). But, Richard played Cedar Trees as I walked down the aisle, the night before I hung out with Kim, Jackie, and Hayley until 3 am drinking and talking (and had a horrible hangover the next day). After only three hours of sleep I was woken by the rain on the tin roof of the b&b cottage. Kim brought me a latte, but I couldn't drink it all. Danica saved me with another drink. It was hours of hair and make-up and watching everyone else get soaked while hanging sails to provide some cover. All I cared about at that point was being married under the arch that Will built, and we did.
We both cried, (and I was told so did everyone else), because our vows were honest and full of twelve years of life together. Mike popped a bottle of bubbly, we toasted, kissed, and walked back down the aisle.
I was frustrated by taking group shots, I just wanted to get on with the party. The food was delicious: pulled pork sandwiches, potato salad, watermelon, and mac 'n cheese. The drinks were kept cool in an old bath tub full of ice, and all of the prosecco was gone before the speeches. Hayley and Richard played for us and we danced, and cut the delicious carrot cake and chocolate rum cake that my Mom made. Will couldn't find his iPod that had all the music on it so we listened to whatever was playing. At the end of the night Will realized that it was his iPod plugged in all along, he had just taken off the case.
I still listen to the mixes I made, and we shake our heads at all that happened that we hadn't planned on, and that's just how it goes.
So, we are nearing the end of the first year of marriage, which is said to be the hardest. While I don't think it's been the hardest for us, it has had difficulties. It hasn't gone as we'd hoped. I have an amazing teaching job, and we were in the perfect place to start our family after what feels like forever. Well, the school is closing down. Hopefully next year at this time I will have a new amazing teaching job, and our family will have grown. We will see.
