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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Happy 18 months!


{Warning: relationship post}

It's been an interesting 18 months, that's for sure. And what I've learned is that time is a really weird thing. It still boggles my mind how so little time (in the grand scheme of things) has passed, and yet it feels like forever.


It boggles me that we can go from being this...
Pumpkin picking in Oct. of 1999 (8years old)
To this! in what feels like the blink of an eye. And yet there's so many years, so many memories. And I have to say, this boy has filled many a year and memory of mine and I would have it no other way.

Ocean Beach summer of 2012 (21 and 20yrs old respectively)



He's my best friend and has seen me at my best, and my worst. He's seen me in elegance, and in fits of weeping hysteria and he's still here.


I'm excited and anxious to say that my beloved has a meeting with his CG recruiter on Friday and I am trying very hard to shush the selfish part of me that wants to scream "Don't go! Stay with me!" I keep reminding myself that this is a good thing for him, and good thing for us. That it's a new chapter, a new adventure. But this silly, grinning face has always lived no more than 10 minutes away from me for 15 years. I've grown accustomed to, and have been spoiled by seeing him so often and not thinking twice about it. 
But I know that once the separation comes it wont be forever.
Harry's place after the beach, summer of 2013 (22 and 21 respectively)


G with the uke on ocean beach. '13
(Current Mental Soundtrack)


Sunset on a lake in New Hampshire. July 4th.



And it's all the the adventures that are to come after that separation that I look forward to...together.  

"We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain..." Hebrews 6:19







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