Nine Years Later

Yesterday Jesse and I had our ninth wedding anniversary.

Nine years isn’t long in the grand scheme of life. But Jesse and I have had our fair share of ups and downs: we found out we are unable to have children and both of my parents died during those nine years. And that is just the start.

Here is to many more years.

I did think, let’s go about this slowly.

This is important. This should take

some really deep thought.

We should take

small thoughtful steps.

But, bless us, we didn’t.

– Mary Oliver