Six Years and Counting

So, as of today (roughly--we celebrate our anniversaries on Valentine's Day just to not have so many holidays smushed up against each other, as both of our birthdays and our Mom's birthdays are around Christmas/New Year's), H. and I have been together for six, count 'em, SIX years.

All I can say is, Wow. It's the longest I've been with one person (my next-longest relationship was four years long) and I have to say, maybe it's just because of the novelty and fun of wedding planning right now, but I really do feel like our lives together, our relationship, has just begun (cue Carpenters song here). It's been a fascinating, lovely, romantic, crazy, emotional, challenging, moonlight-flooded, intense, fun, laughter-filled, sexy, sometimes volatile, sometimes chaotic, beautiful, musical, sunlit, frustrating, enlightening, at times overwhelming but overall extremely satisfying six years with H., I have to say, and I'm only looking forward to many more years with him as we start this next phase of our life together as a married couple.

Thank you, H., for all that you've brought to my life, to my healing and to my community of friends and family. You are my everything, and I love you.


Me and H. letting the little kid in both of us come out to play.