Life's Whirlwind Adventures

I did a little something and got married!! No we didn't elope or anything, we planned it out and in the end it was the perfect day! My husband and I got engaged in 2009 and two years later we were married.  Yup it wasn't something we rushed into, although we did get engaged a year and a half after dating then sort of tested the waters for a bit.  I'd always had a plan to get married in Lake Tahoe, you know my favourite place on the planet!! After taking my husband there in 2010 he agreed that this would be a wonderful place for a wedding. Now we decided to get married on a Monday in the summer, not the most popular day granted, but since we were travelling from Canada this would give everyone a little time to travel down for the wedding and not feel rushed trying to make a Saturday wedding or having to leave right after. We were all on vacation anyways so it didn't matter what day of the week we chose.  We had friends and family coming from California as well, not...

A good friend of mine recommended that people read Gary Chapman's The Five Love Languages.   It was a book that had helped her through a tough time in her marriage and she felt that it was an amazing read!! I appreciated her candour and even though I am not having difficulty in my marriage at this point in time, there have been times when things weren't always great. I had decided that I should read this book based on her suggestion, because one of my beliefs is that marriage is work, it's not fairy tale stuff. You need to work at love to make sure you don't fall out of it. I would like to see the trend in divorces changed, I want my boys to know that marriage is something you have to take seriously and to work on every day. So last week I read this book, I also took out his other two books, one for children and one for teenagers.  There are times when I struggle with speaking the other love languages and I am trying to ensure that my boys always know that I love th...

For Valentine's Day I thought I would share a letter to my husband! Dear Husband, I would like to start off by saying that I love you very much, you are a great equalizer in my life.  You make me smile and laugh, you allow me to cry when I need to. You are unobtrusive in letting me deal with my emotions, which I know can be a real freight train at times.  You understand that even though you drive me crazy I am willing to work on things with you.  We don't always agree, and sometimes those disagreements are larger than life, but sometimes they are small and inconsequential at the end of the day. We've now known each other for five years, and it feels like I've known you for 15 years or more ;)  It's been a great five years, and I look forward to the rest of our adventures together. Happy Valentine's Day my AGB Love, Wife