marriage

The best thing that ever happened to me on this planet was my wife. Meeting her for the first time, engaging her and trying to be awesome around her, Seeing her walk down the aisle, creating 3 beautiful children with her and enjoying life experiences with her all rock solid amazing.

We have had our share of arguments and moments of extreme fellowship 8-). I have been so frustrated by her and I have so frustrated her that in that moment we might have given up but we didn’t(we may have mentioned it however). we have been distant to one another and incredibly close to one another. This is marriage and this is the nature of relationships the goal is always to love more appreciate more and do better on the next occasion of frustration.

I have been lucky enough to spend half of my life loving her and being loved in return. I remember the excitement of going to uni when we were and weren’t yet together, just to have the opportunity to  come up with a reason to see her, she consumed my thoughts then and still does now, looking for opportunities to do things with her so i could pick her up and then drop her home just to spend extra time with her. I remember holding her hand under the table thinking, “this is the softest coolest skin I have ever touched”. Then later, I remember what it felt like watching her walking down the aisle to marry me, as the door opened she were Haloed in light and so beautiful it made my heart sing. And then years later again, I remember the hours after daniel’s birth, falling asleep with my heart bursting as I watched her sleeping with that tiny baby asleep on her chest, skin to skin. I remember how calm she was when each of our children were born after all the long months of sickness and the beautiful lives that then joined ours more tightly together. So many memories and so much love.