Ten Years

Ten years ago today:

Two kids set off to start a life together.
They really had no idea about the world -- had very little experience -- and they didn't know where life might lead them.
But they loved each other madly and nothing else seemed to matter much.

Ten years later.
They have moved across the continent and back again. They have spent a lot of time together. They have produced plays and movies. They have broken world records. They have travelled across oceans and driven through deserts. They have bought and sold houses, cars, moving trucks, and even furniture -- although they still have the same hand-me-down couches they've always had. Ten years of evenings they have spent relaxing on those couches, enjoying each other's company.

More than six years it was just the two of them. After a few years, they felt the panic that the children might never come. They spent many hours consulting with doctors -- spent many more hours consulting with each other about how their expectations and plans might have to change. Then something happened. The two of them became three. And then the three became four. Oh how things changed.

Ten years later.
Now they are parents and they are so busy and so tired and so much different than they were ten years ago today. These children are their whole world. Their world seems smaller than it did before. Little hugs and kisses. Little snuggles. Little scrapes and tears. Little sniffles. A smaller world, but somehow they feel bigger than they did a decade ago.

Ten years ago today,
Two kids set off to start a life together. Now they know a little more about the world, and they've build themselves a little nest for four.
And they still love each other madly...

..and nothing else seems to matter much.
Happy 10th Anniversary!