The Celebration Continues: 123 Months

 

123 months of marriage. Isn’t that an adorable number? Ryan really has made this whole 123 months as easy as 1-2-3!

            Unfortunately, he wrestled with a kidney stone this week, so we started the monthiversary with the tail end of that adventure – or at least we hope it’s the tail end! I hate seeing him hurt!

            Last month, we were in the throes of packing, dividing-and-conquering, and trying to redo the previous month’s date, which hadn’t been our best. I remember, last month, being so excited to know that this month we’d be at the lake for this occasion. And oh, what a beautiful morning it was to be looking out over the water when the day began!

            I was happy to see Ryan feeling some better from his two days of kidney stone pain, and I sent him off to work so I could finish getting ready for my own work day. He had barely left before I realized that I couldn’t find my phone. I’d had it earlier in the day, clearly, since I took the pretty sunrise picture. But I could not find it anywhere. Since he was already gone, I couldn’t have him call me to help me look for it. I also knew he was likely to call on his way to work, and I wouldn’t be able to answer. I sent a barrage of emails, hoping he would see notifications on his phone eventually to let him know my phone was missing.

            I spent 25 minutes looking for it. I went into every room I’d been in throughout the morning. I checked pockets. I unmade and remade the bed. I looked in the refrigerator, even! Would you like to know where I found it?

            Laundry hamper.

            I’d taken a shower and apparently gathered it up with my jammies and tossed the whole pile into the hamper. (For the record, I had checked there, but I only checked right on top. It had buried itself deeply in the hamper.) I was so grateful I hadn’t dumped everything into the washer!

            I got to work and then received a call from Ryan asking if I’d like to take a lunch break today and join him for lunch – so I did! It was a quick date, but it was fun, and it was SO good to see him happy and smiling again!

            It was so nice outside and is supposed to be pretty rainy today, so I asked if we could go for a walk around the lake. Lexi and I were both stir crazy, and I hated to miss a beautiful evening. So we headed out and look what we discovered along the way! A beautiful bald eagle, high in a treetop!

            We had leftovers for dinner and used our evening to hang the shelves for our coffee mugs! That allowed us to unpack our last big box. It was a joy to put that together…together.

            Ryan, setting up a home with you is one of my favorite things to do. We’ve done it many times. Let’s have this one hold for a while, okay? Happy 123 months! I love you with my whole heart!