What We've Learned in 10 Years.
2008. Then. We believed love was easy. It was fun, light-hearted and carefree. Every minute in every day belong to us and each other. We held one another's hand. We ran with our furry four legged danes. We had long, thoughtful conversations. We traveled the world and flew by the wings on our feet. We stayed up late and woke up early. We laughed and debated. We cooked, played, and adventurously explored every mountain we stumbled upon. We would set up a tent and live moment by moment often unplanned. The world was ours to dream and wonder. We said our vows to each other. We read the words: love was patient, love was kind. We believed that love was invincible and as long as we had each other, our love could take on anything.
2018. Now. We have learned that love takes work. That it changes as we change. That vows are more then words but actions that we must live, through the good times and hard. Our time is now more than just ours. It belongs to the little heartbeats we created. We hold each other's hand through their hands. We now walk with the memory of our furry gray-faced danes. The halls still echo with their footprints. Our conversations often come in bits and pieces in between cleaning up spilled milk, violin lessons, sports practices, homework, reading goodnight stories and singing songs. We travel with a lot more packing and show our little heartbeats how to use the wings on their feet that they are still learning they have. We fly more paper airplanes then ride on actual real ones. We stay up late to have time alone together and wake up early to prepare for the day ahead. We still laugh and debate (our topics have expanded). We cook a lot more food, play games, do puzzles, go down slides, play dress up and cross monkey-bars. Every single day we explore new moments. We set up tents and forts in our living room; we jump on the couch to avoid hot lava. We plan a bit more. A lot more. We dream and wonder. We pray. Everything seems a bit more precious and fragile. We continue to learn what love is: how to be whole-heartedly patient and kind with it; how to protect, endure, and have true and utter faith in it. We continue to learn to embrace the imperfect, silly, sometimes hard, sometimes simple adventures that love takes us on. And we hold on tight.
