Anniversary Time

Mark and I will have been married for 6 years on Saturday! We’ve had a lot of changes recently which has me thinking about the changes we’ve had through the past 6 years. We’ve worked 9 jobs between the two of us. We lived in 3 different apartments, one rental house, and just now bought a home. We lived in a quaint all-American town in Pennsylvania for 5 years, a huge Minneapolis suburb for 10 months, and now in the metropolis of Columbus, Ohio. We started out working in an AWANA ministry at our church, and then moved on to a college student ministry, and that’s where our hearts have stayed for now. I guess we’ll see what the future holds in that area at our new church here. We have two kids now! And our once pretty organized home now has Buzz Lightyears, My Little Ponies, blocks, and balls hidden in every little corner. We’ve watched 76 Ohio State football games (most of them in the Miller’s living room with our 4 little Buckeyes running around in their scarlet and gray) and seen one National Championship! We’ve traveled hundreds upon hundreds of miles to see our families. We’ve thrown 5 Superbowl parties. We’ve had 312 Saturday pizza nights and ate possibly hundreds of batches of chili. We’ve played hundreds of games (and guess who always wins). Mark taught me to like games, and I’m still trying to get him to love movies. We don’t have much TV in common, but every year we seem to find one show that we’re both excited about (Ed, Alias, King of Queens, all the Law and Orders, The Apprentice, The Office…) We got to be part of a college basketball program for 5 years, and now we dream together about a future coaching career. We’ve learned to rely on each other more and on God through the same circumstances. We’re trying to figure out this parenting thing together. The message of abundant life changed our lives at the same time. We both learned about our spiritual gifts at the same time. 6 years doesn’t seem like much in the grand scheme of what I hope our marriage is, but they’ve been a full and fun 6 years and I’m so thankful for Mark and for what he is to our family.