A Big Day

 

May 14th is a significant day in my life.

It's Steve's and my anniversary. Today - 29 years! We got married the day before we graduated from college. Most people react with shock when they learn we put that much stress on ourselves in one weekend. However, it made logical sense to us and we are both grateful for having these events coincide with each other. I grew up in Oklahoma City. Steve's family was living in Marshfield. We didn't want to get married while we were still in college and we knew if we waited to get married during the summer following graduation, regardless of where we got married, many of our friends would not be able to be there. So, getting married at the church on campus when most of our friends were still in town and our family would all be gathered for graduation made perfect sense. It was a wonderful weekend and even with my horrible memory, I have many special memories from our wedding day and weekend.

Mother's Day also sometimes falls on May 14th - or very close to it. The year we got married, Mother's Day was the same day as graduation. Because of this, I have so many warn and fuzzy feelings as I see pictures pop up on my timeline from years past wishing my mom a happy Mother's Day and remembering the celebrations we had with Steve's mom. Everything from our wedding/graduation/Mother's Day weekend gets tied in together and there is so much happiness for these times.

My best friend's (Anne Nelson Farmer) birthday is today. She was one of my bridesmaids. We still talk every week. I love getting to celebrate her and our friendship along with the other specialness of the day. Interestingly, Anne and Chris's anniversary is on Steve's birthday.

So, I love this day and this weekend. It really has all the feels and I am always reminded of how fortunate I am to have so much love - from my mom, from Steve, from Anne, and all of our friends and family who have shared these important milestones with us year after year.

Starting Anew

 While browsing around the internet this morning I decided to revisit my neglected blog. It's got some good memories - especially of my six weeks in Indonesia. My last post was from August 2020 and I believe my intent was to blog throughout the pandemic to have a record of how that unfolded. That didn't happen. We are now (as of this week) officially out of the global pandemic - although Covid is still around and likely always will be. However, life is pretty much back to normal with a few smart changes to how society interacts with each other to try to remain a little less germ-y.

One month from tomorrow I'm having total knee replacement surgery of my right knee. I'm going to be off work for approximately 4-6 weeks and maybe even longer. With this in my future it seems like a good time to start, again, with trying to keep a fairly timely record of my doings and my thoughts about what is happening in the world.

Today I'm just saying hello. It's good to be back.