Today is our 15th wedding anniversary. Marriage has been nothing like I dreamed it would be at all. It has been wonderful though. I would not trade my single days for this at all. My husband is a wonderful father, gracious brother and uncle but a tremendous husband. He is truly my soul mate. I have truly enjoyed this journey of growing in our love and closer to Christ with Chad. I love him more than words can possibly tell you. Happy Anniversary sweetie!!!
The month of June is also a very hard month for my family and I. We have tons of birthdays, including my own, but also plenty of deaths for this month. My brother's birthday was June 19th and he would have been 53 this year, however, he drown the day before I was born. It has been so hard all these years to deal with my parents grief around that time. They tried to give me a good birthday and tried to hide their true feelings but not always successfully. My grandfather also died the day before my birthday when I turned 9. Never a good thing to be in the funeral home instead of having a cake. My husband's mother died on June 24th, the day before our anniversary, four years ago. And hopefully lastly, my daughter was due to be born on June 28th 12 years ago. She never made it to birth but I know she is in Heaven now.
These are just a few of the things our marriage has had to endure and I am more than sure they will be so many more. When we got married, we went on our honeymoon, obviously. When we came home, Chad had called his mother to get me a red velvet cake (yummo) for my birthday. He knows how hard this time of year is and has always went above and beyond to try to make it a happy time for me. I have to take this time, because of Chad's kindness, to say thank you Lord for allowing me to have this man in my life.
