The Celebration Continues: 122 Months

 

Sometimes you just need a do-over. Our last monthiversary was a little on the sad side. We were both tired, stressed, worn from renovations/holidays/being apart, and then the day didn’t go according to plan at all.

            So now it’s a month later, and we’re tired, stressed, and worn from renovations and being apart…you can see how this is shaping up to be quite different from last month, can’t you?

            We are clinging to the ever-growing light at the end of the tunnel and believe with all our hearts that next month will be a whole new story, because we’ll be moved, and even though we will still be, I’m sure, living out of boxes, it will at least allow us to be in the same space for the evening, and we welcome that.

            We aren’t complaining, truly. We have buckled down and banded together to see this thing through to the end. We tell each other every day that we’re almost there and it’s SO CLOSE.

            This is what monthiversaries are really about. We celebrate what went well – and we had a lot of “went well” in the last month. A lot of prayers answered in very definitive ways. Some of them weren’t what we imagined, but we do have an answer, and we rest in that. (Answers to prayer don’t always have to line up with your hopes and desires to BE answers. Sometimes we need to hear that, don’t we?)

            So yesterday we celebrated 122 months and focused on the many good things that came to pass in the last thirty days. We grew. We learned. We strengthened. We persevered. We celebrate all those things.

            Ryan worked at the lake house after work, and I powered through the work day so I could get back to packing. In there somewhere, I managed to make dinner and do some laundry, and Lexi helped with it all.

            Ryan came home, and we ate our Big Mac salads at the kitchen island, because the table was full of wall art waiting to be packed. Both of us were hungry enough that we didn’t care about relocating.

            Though Thursdays are normally our recovery day in our workout routine, we had to use Wednesday for that this week, because we went to celebrate Ryan’s Dad’s birthday with his family! So we pulled out the dumbbells and did a 45 minute workout! January’s monthiversary was our first day to do workouts in this series, so it was actually gratifying to see how much stronger we’ve gotten in a month’s time!

THEN, we had a do-over for our date from last month! When our friends were here last week to stay with us, they gifted us homemade hot cocoa bombs that were almost too beautiful to consume. (We worked past it and consumed them.)

They were SO GOOD. Ryan said he was ready to order a dozen more! (His was mint and mine was milk chocolate.) We enjoyed our treats while we watched a couple episodes of Without a Trace.

It was a sweet evening. Thank you, Ryan, for celebrating with me! I love you so much!!! Let’s ring in 123 months at the lake!