Monday, January 02, 2006
Happy Anniversary
To us! As implied in this late night post full of historical links, today is our second anniversary. Talk about a chance well taken. After less than three months of close, regular contact, and almost eight days of in-person contact, we got married in Las Vegas and it’s like living a dream.
Things didn’t go exactly as planned, and it’s funny to picture the alternative, but we’re thrilled with Sadie and really it’s as well to get having the kids out of the way. Sadie was obviously quite impatient to join us, given her improbability. I’ll take the kids over yuppiedom any day.
Then again, Deb and I were improbable in ways that go well beyond meeting through blogging, being disparate ages, and being on opposite coasts. In a more normal lifetime, I’d have long since married someone else. The armada of butterflies that went into leaving me available for her at 42 are almost the stuff of fiction.
It’s enough to make you wonder. Sad as it was for me, she’s glad I was seemingly reserved for her, and I think it turned out for the best.
Two years have seemed like no time and a lifetime. It’s easy to imagine looking back from thirty years out and saying “has it really been that long?” And “was what came before really as long or longer?”
Here’s to a lifetime of love, completeness, and giving the kids positive starts to even better lives.