To You, From Us

Number Six

Yesterday was our 6th anniversary. It started out a bit rough due to the fact that I've been letting myself get over stressed and overwhelmed lately, which usually means that Bry's going to have a bad day too.

Thankfully things got much better when I left to run errands and came back to a clean kitchen and a burned CD, old-school style, from Bry on the counter. He had collected pretty much all of the songs that have been part of our life together over the past six years. Our own little soundtrack...from Damien Rice to Carbon Leaf, Ben Harper to Cat Stevens. It's amazing how music can instantly take you back to different times and places. All of the sudden I was remembering our engagement, our first apartment on Purdue campus, our little old house in Broad Ripple...

The road hasn't looked exactly like we imagined and life has been harder than we thought it would be in a lot of ways, but we know that God is leading us somewhere beautiful. And the journey is part of it. I'm learning that no matter where we go from here, as long as we have Jesus and each other, we are home.

Thanks for six perfectly imperfect years with you, Babe. Here's to many more!

Conversations with Poppy

I love it when toddlers start to talk. It's just so much fun to hear what's on their mind and learn more about their completely unique personalities. I need to start writing down our conversations because I know if I don't then I'll forget these days and they'll be gone forever.

This week, Poppy informed me that she had "stinks in diaper." When I asked her why she didn't use the potty, she gave me one of her dramatic faces that she's so good at and said with a sigh, "Too tired a go potty." To which I replied (while trying not to laugh), "Well, then I guess it's time for a nap." Her answer to that was of course a quick and emphatic, "No, don't like it nap!"

And then later that day...

In passing I made the comment, "You're my buddy, Poppy. We have fun together, don't we?" I didn't expect her to answer, but without skipping a beat she looked at me with a big smile and said, "Yeah, two girls!"

I love that we get to spend our days as the two girls. And in three and a half months there will be three of us. That makes me very happy.