Tuesday Breakfast Notes #76
15 Years
“So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Matthew 19:6 NIV
I’ve spent the end of summer feeling like I’m surely not old enough to be doing the things I find myself doing. I mean, how old were you when you really started believing you were an adult? Was there a magic age?
My brain still has days it thinks I’m back in college (my body on the other hand does not). But now I have kids in middle school, and somedays I still can't believe that they even let me bring those 4 pound babies home in the first place! Or that then they let me bring home another one!
And it’s been more than 18 years since Stephen and I started dating. This week will be our 15th wedding anniversary! Wasn’t I just 15 years old?
On our 10th wedding anniversary, I wrote out a list of some of the things we’d been up to. I decided to do a little update for this year, and share some of it with you.
Since September 2009, we have:
-Tried apartment living.
-Lived with Uncle Doug.
-Bought a house we intended to keep for 15 years.
-Earned 2 Master’s degrees.
-Sent 2 grandparents home to Jesus.
-Survived 1 head injury.
-Welcomed healthy triplet girls at 35 weeks.
-Sold the house after only 2 1/2 years.
-Followed the moving truck to Route 560 on the same day our babies turned 2 months old.
-Realized things were stressful when we both got shingles.
-Traveled to Arizona, Florida, Kentucky and Kansas with 3 littles.
-Welcomed a 4th, healthy baby girl.
-Spent 8 months with 4 girls under the age of 4.
-Traveled to Arizona, Virginia Beach, Florida and Indiana with 4 littles.
-Schooled the girls at home during a worldwide pandemic.
-Changed jobs the same week we hosted Shelby’s and Grant’s wedding.
-Considered moving to Birmingham.
-Spent about 5,479 days choosing to do life together.
Before we know it, we’ll be to our 30th anniversary. And I’ll probably be saying “wasn’t I just 30 years old?”
Have you ever tried writing out a timeline for yourself? It's a pretty neat way to look back at how God's plans come together to bring you to the present.
For today, I didn't include the jobs we didn't get, the times we had to wait, or the hurts we felt- maybe I'll work on that for another time. As we walked through, it looked like silence or frustration or disappointment. In the long run, any difference would have changed our life trajectory in a major way. And I kind of like where we find ourselves at year 15.
I'll be praying for you this week!
