This week in history
This week marks some very important days in my personal history. Tuesday and yesterday was a the 10 year anniversary of meeting and chatting with Jarrett via Yahoo! Personals for the very first time and also the 6 year anniversay of finding out we were going to be parents and my finally quiting smoking for good. Tomorrow will be the anniversary of our first date at Esquire Grille. Yesterday, on FB, Jarrett and I both marked the occasion with a link to his original LJ post. This morning I woke with the urge to reread our early history. I shouldn't have. We've come a long way since those early days and yet we haven't. We're parents now to the most incredible son two people could ever ask for and for me that is a dream come true. And if that was the only thing I got out of the last ten years it would certainly be enough. But we started off so different, and though I often feel nothing has changed, I know I am forever changed for knowing him. Looking back is always a mistake though. Backward is not the direction we're headed. There is no changing the past. Things were rocky from go, and we had so many bumps along the way...both public and private, and things continue to be rocky. I never know quite where we're at or where we're going or if we're headed there together or separately. I often feel I don't know the man any better than I did 10 years ago. And though we are still very different in so many ways I think we've grown more alike than I could have ever imagined. Though I remember feeling so sure after that first date we were headed nowhere we've certainly been on a long journey together. I've grown to love and need him more than I could have ever imagined. So here's to 10 years and another 10 no matter what bumps they bring. We are forever bound as parents and that is quite enough for me.