Thirteen Years

Thirteen years ago I married the love of my life.

When I think back to that day when we spoke to each other for the first time, I realize how random our running into each other was. I was only eighteen, and he was twenty one…so young. But how could I have resisted this gorgeous guy??? 

Someday I’ll have to tell you in detail our proposal story (a marriage proposal executed in a typical Robert’s style).

And of course, I said “Yes”- one of the most important “Yes”s I ever said in my life.

We were having a discussion with our kids a couple of weeks ago about how decisions that they will make between ages of 15-25, will be incredibly important in their life. They will have to determine how well they do in high school, what college they will go to, what profession they will choose and whom they will marry. I can tell them confidently that marrying the right person is one of the most significant things they will have to do in life.

Thanks to marrying Robert, my life is what it is right now. I know that a lot of decisions that I, personally, have made have carried me through so far, but it’s even more decisions that we as a couple have made in the last thirteen years is what turned our life into this big adventure (and it’s not always easy).

The most obvious outcome of our marriage are these three fantastic kids who try every day to make the right choices. Under Katya’s business-like leadership, they cooked us our anniversary dinner—tacos and root beer floats. They were so proud of themselves! Katya even cooked the meet all by herself and we didn’t die.

I know we have changed through all these years. We have learnt how to do a lot of great things and have developed a few bad habits, we have gone through the sad and happy moments together always holding each other close, we have travelled the world and tested our marriage with a number of stressful moves. But most importantly, we have grown to love each other at least ten times more now than on our wedding day.

Happy Wedding Anniversary to us!