Almost 1 year?!

We are approaching our 1 year anniversary in 18 days. 

Wow. 

Really?!

Really.

Wow.

Yeah.

(behold, my own internal conversation with myself).

See we were officially a couple for about a year and half - a little over - and that seemed like FOREVER until we were finally hitched. Days dragged on, and I thought we'd always been nearly-married, but never quite there somehow. 

Now almost 12 months have gone by, and they have been simply joyous and blissful. Granted, there's been some non-joyous and non-blissful parts as we worked on some new communication skills, but over all - it's been nice.

Now thinking about this tonight, I realized I based my entire decision on marrying someone during a time period just a little bit less than the entire time we've been married. It seems crazy to me now! But Jon kindly reminded me that I was quite willing to take much less time to make the decision then! 

I am realizing, however, I'm not calculating all the years spent before in which God was preparing us to make that decision in the time He allotted for it. All the books we both read, the people we listened to, our friendships, the relationships we observed - both good and bad- and the hard lessons we learned through broken hearts, all equipped us to "know" when we met each other that this was our life-partner. The soul searching had been done and, I guess in hind-sight, we were ready to make the call within a reasonable time frame to get to know each other and observe any potential red flags that may arise. 

Hm. That's a nice thought. Glad to have had it, and thank you all for reading it.