Stopping to smell the roses...

noreply@blogspirit.com (Kristen Truong) — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:03:50 -0400

Ok. I've been pretty silly on this blog lately. Probably because I've been so busy in real life. With work, Amelia, weddings, and moving, my plate has been overflowing.

Fortunately, John and I still were able to celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary on Tuesday with a romantic dinner. And I'm feeling a little sentimental.

We are really proud of the life we have built together, and I'm just *trying* to take a brief moment to enjoy it. We have a loving family, beautiful precocious daughter, wonderful, fun, trusting friends, and are financial stable - heck, we even have money in the bank. We are moving into a great house where we are going to make lots of great memories, and we have already made lots of great memories in our first home.

I also think we've done pretty well with our marriage. We seem to make everything work, even when we don't agree. We love each other, and I can't imagine being without him. Ok. I'm done being sappy. Here's someone else's sap about marriage that I think is pretty good.

The Art Of A Good Marriage

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens.

A good marriage must be created.

In marriage the little things are the big things.

It is never being too old to hold hands.

It is remembering to say "I love you" at least once a day.

It is never going to sleep angry.

It is at no time taking the other for granted;

the courtship should not end with the honeymoon, it should continue through the years.

It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.

It is standing together facing the world.

It is forming a circle of love that gathers the whole family.

It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.

It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.

It is not looking for perfection in each other.

It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humour.

It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.

It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow old.

It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.

It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.

It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner.

~Wilferd A. Peterson

kt moxie - personal

Stopping to smell the roses...