At least the stage of the relationship that my wife and I share right now certainly seems to be!
What can I say?! Having three kids – two of which are babies – not to mention a dog who seems to have a maturity level most closely resembling our three year-old … is challenging!
And yet it’s also incredibly rewarding in ways that’ll catch your heart off guard and make the whole thing worthwhile…
Our work schedule, with me working two jobs – thankfully from home – and Sara only working part-time one night a week so that she can take care of the kids … is still very stressful!
But our bills all manage to get paid and we somehow manage to keep doing all of the fun stuff that we love, so it works out ok.
The life that we live right now is both exhausting and amazing, and I have no doubt in my mind that my wife would agree wholeheartedly with that statement … because we’ve both worked very hard together to get to this point, and quite frankly I couldn’t imagine keeping any of it afloat if we weren’t both in this thing together as a team.
We have responsibilities that we share, and together we get as many of them accomplished as we can, and we don’t give each other a hard time about it when something falls through the cracks.
We each have awesome days when we feel like we’re on top of the world and terrible days when it seems like we’re beneath it, and it’s ok that those days are rarely – if ever – in sync.
We both understand that we each bring different things to this relationship and this family that we share, and we both admire and appreciate the strengths as well as tolerate and overlook the flaws and quirks!
It’s weird to think that it was eleven years ago on this day that I first met Sara. In the past, today has been a special day that tends to stay in the forefront, but this year it wasn’t until about an hour ago that I realized what day it was. We figured that around this time (9:30 pm) back in 2006, we had gone back to Sara’s apartment after having dinner and were just chatting because neither of us wanted the night to end at that point.
And yet here in 2017, we were just trying to get around to getting three cranky kids down for bed so that we could take a breath!
Of course, that night neither of us could’ve ever predicted this bizarrely wonderful life that we would one day have together – at the time, we were just happy to find somebody to share some time with. Lord only knows what our life together will look like another 11 years from now … I’d like to think that maybe it would be a little bit quieter, though with a teenager and pre-teens on the rise, that’s probably not all that likely! 😯
But together we’ll take each new challenge as it comes and we’ll figure out a way to make it work because that’s what teamwork is all about.