7 years?!

June 1st of this year marked 7 years of marriage for Mike and I :)

I didn't talk about last Monday because we had a non-fun anniversary due to arguments that were serious but certainly not relationship-threatening. I chose NOT to write at the time because I didn't want to just rant and rave about disagreements that I knew we would work through. It's rare for me to "take the high road" that way but maybe after 7 years, I have learned something?

Our marriage has been blessed in many ways...really, our only downfall is financial matters and we are slowly wading our way to a better place with all of that. We have the support of our families, many wonderful friends and -not least of all- 2 beautiful children and the excitement of adding one more little one to our family. I truly feel that our relationship is made stronger by having so much support from those around us. At the same time, Mike & I truly like being together--we make each other laugh-- we are a good team most of the time-- we understand each other.

Since we have had children, whenever we have ever gone through times where we weren't seeing eye-to-eye, we only need to look at Michael and Liam to know that we are in the right marriage--that we belong together. Our children strengthened our bond in a good way. They give us the inspiration to not take each other for granted.

We also share the same basic values but have enough differences to keep things interesting. I love the way our relationship continues to grow. Of course, the exciting first moments of marriage are incredible. But I wouldn't trade that for what we have now...