10.

today we celebrated our tenth anniversary.  i'm still trying to wrap my mind around it.  ten whole years married.  in many ways, it feels as though we've lived a lifetime in those ten years- two crazy young kids stepping into a life together having no idea what twists and turns would lie ahead.  so many adventures, so many stories of God's goodness to us.  and even including the harder times, i've loved living this life with phil.  i love being able to laugh together over our shared history, all our "remember whens" in each of the seven places we've lived in these past ten years.

and what did we do to commemorate this special day?  why, we cleaned out the old house we moved out of this past weekend, of course.  it was a task that had to be done and it had to get done today.  but we marked the day by ruefully announcing "happy anniversary!" to each other while doing some particularly unsavory chore.

if you had asked us on our wedding day what we thought we'd be doing on our tenth anniversary, spending the entire day cleaning out a tired old rental house would probably have not made the list of guesses.  not by a long shot.

that was us then.

but in ten years, i like to think we've mellowed some, grown up some, and learned to take these things in stride.  king solomon wasn't kidding when he said, "to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." (ecclesiastes 3:1)

and so we were totally okay with the way we spent this day.  and we were totally okay with each other, too.

for today, we had to work.

and next week comes our time to celebrate like the two crazy not-as-young kids we still are.

celebrating God's faithfulness and goodness in bringing us through these past ten years.

hand-in-hand and ready to face the next decade together.  :)