On our actual anniversary (today) started out GREAT. I got to catch up with Kimberly and loved every minute of video chatting. Sam slept in and I chatted with Kimberly all morning. It was so good to catch up and laugh! To see all that she has accomplished and hear all the exciting things ahead for her just made me smile today. Plus hinting that a trip to NZ needs to be in her near future was fun too....January or February is nice and warm and we live by the beach!!! Thanks for calling sweet friend!
Sam and I spent the day just being together and driving down the coast. We did this all the time when we were dating and it brought back such good memories and even laughter and shock as we realized that never in our wildest dreams did we think we would be walking along the same beaches on our year anniversary and expecting our first child!
We stopped at a beach we always found ourselves stopping at two years ago. It was one of our favorite beaches on this coast drive. It was so peaceful and good to just stop and be together. This beach makes me laugh at myself and smile with memories. I can remember adamantly telling Sam that we were just friends and that is all we would ever be while we were at this beach. Then moments later taking a picture and looking at it on the camera and I was cuddly and cozy as could be with Sam. I remember seeing that picture knowing that there was more to us than even my heart could fathom at that moment. So today almost 2 years later I had to stop for another picture...unfortuntanetly my eyes are shut but you get the idea.
We then headed down the coast and stopped to get a coffee and a chai latte. I laughed to myself as I got my "large" latte. I sometimes forget how big we get things in America and today throughout the whole day I remembered and just laughed to myself. Yet everything I got was just enough not too much. It is just ingrained in my American psyche that I must have it big!!
As we were leaving the last beach I saw this sign and died laughing!
We finished the night by going out to Mexican. There are 2 Mexican places in our little town and I have been dying to try one of them. Notice the size of chips and guacamole you...again just had to laugh as we paid $14 dollars for a small bowl of chips and a child size bowl of guacamole. Honestly at most places the guacamole comes in a bowl the size of our chips came in! "When in Rome." But it was still incredibly fun to be out to Mexican, eating yummy guacamole and being with Sam and some how just feeling AT HOME.
We stopped at a beach we always found ourselves stopping at two years ago. It was one of our favorite beaches on this coast drive. It was so peaceful and good to just stop and be together. This beach makes me laugh at myself and smile with memories. I can remember adamantly telling Sam that we were just friends and that is all we would ever be while we were at this beach. Then moments later taking a picture and looking at it on the camera and I was cuddly and cozy as could be with Sam. I remember seeing that picture knowing that there was more to us than even my heart could fathom at that moment. So today almost 2 years later I had to stop for another picture...unfortuntanetly my eyes are shut but you get the idea.
We then headed down the coast and stopped to get a coffee and a chai latte. I laughed to myself as I got my "large" latte. I sometimes forget how big we get things in America and today throughout the whole day I remembered and just laughed to myself. Yet everything I got was just enough not too much. It is just ingrained in my American psyche that I must have it big!!
As we were leaving the last beach I saw this sign and died laughing!
We finished the night by going out to Mexican. There are 2 Mexican places in our little town and I have been dying to try one of them. Notice the size of chips and guacamole you...again just had to laugh as we paid $14 dollars for a small bowl of chips and a child size bowl of guacamole. Honestly at most places the guacamole comes in a bowl the size of our chips came in! "When in Rome." But it was still incredibly fun to be out to Mexican, eating yummy guacamole and being with Sam and some how just feeling AT HOME.
It is winter here if you remember hence our warm clothes and being all bundled up. This is outside the restaurant and I thought Sam might die that I was making him take a picture. hehehehe Yet another reason he is PERFECT for me!
Feeling at home has been a feeling I think I have been searching for this last year. The transition this last year was quick, filled with crazy circumstances, way TOO many moves, new countries, new families, no more singleness, new marriage and a new baby. Yikes I get tired even thinking about it. But one thing I continued to hold onto and remember throughout this year was what I saw God doing in my life and my heart. I always wondered if a "first anniversary" would be in my story. If building my own home with someone else would be part of my life and to look back and see all the little details of this last two years I can't help but my smile and be so assured that God was aware of, saw my heart, and answered prayers that I didn't even know how to pray.
To feel at home and settled is a feeling that is unmatched. Today I know why I kept fighting when life was hard to hold on to and when I searched and searched and searched God begging Him to make sense of my circumstances. The faith that was grown, the love that I am sure of from God, the home that I feel that has nothing to do with a little house or a country or little American extras is what God has been doing all along. I know that life continues to swirl around many of us and as it swirls may we remember to hold on. There is a day coming when life does make sense and faith is restored. You can't always predict the time or the way it will happen, but it will happen. For me it wasn't a pretty path with my emotions and my very little faith, but nonetheless it's happening. Celebrating one year with a man that I love and can't imagine life without and knowing that God has been and is smiling down. A Perfect Day.
Feeling at home has been a feeling I think I have been searching for this last year. The transition this last year was quick, filled with crazy circumstances, way TOO many moves, new countries, new families, no more singleness, new marriage and a new baby. Yikes I get tired even thinking about it. But one thing I continued to hold onto and remember throughout this year was what I saw God doing in my life and my heart. I always wondered if a "first anniversary" would be in my story. If building my own home with someone else would be part of my life and to look back and see all the little details of this last two years I can't help but my smile and be so assured that God was aware of, saw my heart, and answered prayers that I didn't even know how to pray.
To feel at home and settled is a feeling that is unmatched. Today I know why I kept fighting when life was hard to hold on to and when I searched and searched and searched God begging Him to make sense of my circumstances. The faith that was grown, the love that I am sure of from God, the home that I feel that has nothing to do with a little house or a country or little American extras is what God has been doing all along. I know that life continues to swirl around many of us and as it swirls may we remember to hold on. There is a day coming when life does make sense and faith is restored. You can't always predict the time or the way it will happen, but it will happen. For me it wasn't a pretty path with my emotions and my very little faith, but nonetheless it's happening. Celebrating one year with a man that I love and can't imagine life without and knowing that God has been and is smiling down. A Perfect Day.
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