My husband and I got married in our early 30s.

By then, we knew who we were, what we wanted out of life, and how to communicate it. As such, our marriage started out blissfully happy and it has only gotten better as time went by.

Time did go by. This week, we are celebrating our ninth anniversary.

One of our wedding pictures, in the doorway of the stone church where we got married

We have had some challenges along the way, of course. We are people, faulty and broken, surrounded by other people, faulty and broken. But, through the challenges, our love for each other has only gotten deeper and richer.

We remodeled a home and had great fun with it.  Continue reading »