10 Years

John and I celebrate 10 years today. Yes, time does fly, but at least I have been flying with my best friend. As I look back over the last 10 years I am amazed at what we have done, were we have gone, and what we have accomplished. We bought a business and bought a home. We have traveled out of the country, skied up North and sailed the Caribbean. We have been stranded in open water in the dead of night with no engine on what all of the sudden became a very small boat. We have laughed until we cried and cried until it hurt. But obviously the most memorable of all moments has been the birth's of our boys. Our cup certainly runneth over. However, I can not celebrate this very special day without thanking all of you too. Thank you all for your support, your friendship and your love. A marriage takes TONS of hard work, and raising children takes even more. We truly could not have accomplished what we have and made it this far without each of you. You have listened to us, offered advise, help us raise our children, set awesome examples and most off all, you have laughed and cried with us. I am sitting here tonight with my glass of wine and I raise it up to my wonderful husband, to myself and too all of you ~ cheers.

I close with the famous words of Kahlil Gibran from The Prophet ~ (and part of our wedding ceremony. )

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.