Happy Anniversary

Yesterday was my eighth wedding anniversary.

This is not the man I thought I was marrying. The guy I thought I was marrying was a rough, tough, hammer-swinging, tattooed-and-earringed bad boy. I thought the sun rose in his eyes, and wasn’t terribly concerned about the rest.

Things change, with time. If you’re lucky and you’ve chosen really, really well, you change for the better, together. Goodness knows I’ve covered a lot of ground in the last eight years. I’m certainly not the person he married either; that girl was not a mother, not a wife, not a lot of other things I consider myself to be, now.

It seems like no time has passed. It seems like it’s been far more than a scant 8 years. It’s had high highs and low lows and the only thing I can say with absolute, utter certainty, is that I am more madly in love with him than I was back then, and that’s saying a whole lot, since the smitten level was pretty high at the beginning.

So here’s to eight years, m’love, and another eight, and another, and another. Let’s see what happens next…

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ElementalMom Sep 17th 2008 02:20 pm Family, Marriage, Musings, TeamHudson 11 Comments Trackback URI Comments RSS

11 Responses to “Happy Anniversary”

  1. Lisa H.on 17 Sep 2008 at 2:38 pm link comment

    Happy Anniversary! Lisa H.

  2. Rixaon 17 Sep 2008 at 4:27 pm link comment

    Happy eighth!

  3. Margareton 17 Sep 2008 at 6:10 pm link comment

    Happy Anniversary! Congratulations :-)

  4. Mom2on 17 Sep 2008 at 10:47 pm link comment

    Whooo Hoo Congrats. Didn’t realize it was that time already. Allen said Congrats too. Thanks for being so Smitten with my Son. The tough guy was just an act, he was always my Hugger! :)

  5. Christie Craigie-Carteron 18 Sep 2008 at 3:44 pm link comment

    Laureen and Jason,

    Congrats on 8 great years–flies doesn’t it? When you’ve found one of the good ones, you know to appreciate it, right?

    I loved your words as always.

    Hugs and love,

    Christie

  6. Gloria Lemayon 18 Sep 2008 at 4:14 pm link comment

    Congratulations, Laureen, I know you are the Source and he is the Power Feeder. I was just talking to my 26 y.o. daughter who has a wonderful guy in her life, too. She was talking to me about his love of Shaker wood furniture. Apparently the Shakers believe in making furniture as if you’re going to live with it for 100 years and living life as if you only have today.
    I’m going to be mulling that around for awhile. Gloria

  7. Shayeon 19 Sep 2008 at 8:05 am link comment

    Happy Anniversary! I couldn’t agree more on everything. I feel so much the same in my own marriage. Sorry this is belated, but I hope it’s been a special celebration, you two!

  8. Stevenon 19 Sep 2008 at 8:06 am link comment

    Happy Anniversary!

    And the hopes for many, many more just as happy ones.

  9. Bob Collieron 19 Sep 2008 at 8:06 pm link comment

    Happy Anniversary! :-)

    Bob
    (madly in love with my wife after 32 years!)

  10. Anne Bennetton 25 Sep 2008 at 11:19 am link comment

    Happy Anniversary! And wishing y’all many happy years ahead!

    Anne
    (going on 13 years this year…and yes, feels like about 2!)

  11. Bonnieon 28 Sep 2008 at 3:21 am link comment

    Congratulations. I get what you mean…We just celebrated our 25th on a boat…and in reality it was the honeymoon we never had…or was it the 25 years we never had…and the honeymoon was perfectly timed.

    May you have many more revolutions around the sun….and a life of forever.

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