year one

 Wow! Is it possible that it has been a year already? It feels like just yesterday I married that handsome devil of mine. Now I feel kind of old, and not so newlyweddish. I remember my mom telling me the day before I got married, "Well daughter, you're going to be an old married bag tomorrow." 

It was such a tender thing to say, really. Right?

There are so many things I could say about our first year of marriage, but I think I have mastered the art of simplicity and have narrowed it down to five. We shall call it  

The 5 Things I Learned in the First Year of Marriage:

1. Just when you think you can't love another person anymore, you do. 

You find some more love inside of your heart that you didn't even know was there to begin with.

It's pretty magical. I remember thinking on our wedding day that I couldn't love Ty any more than I did at that moment. I look back on that now and laugh.There have been so many tender moments when my love for him has grown.

2. It's the little things that matter most. 

No, it is not the little candy wrappers I find beneath the couch cushions, nor is it the pieces of used dental floss that lie around the bathroom sink. The little things like making dinner together, going out to get ice cream, having someone truly care about how you broke the copy machine at work, or how you had to sit at a red light for three hours today. That kind of stuff. When you're married, your seemingly mundane life matters to someone else.

3. Everyone feels love differently, which in turn means everyone needs to be loved differently.

 Strangely enough, you can have hundreds of things in common, but be different in the way you feel love. Learning to love another person how they need to be loved is an art, and it takes time.

4. You need to laugh everyday. 

I'll admit sometimes I just get all uptight and overworked about the most idiotic things, and if I'm not careful, they can ruin my entire day. There is hardly a thing in the world that can bring people together like laughter. The best kind of laughter is the kind where no one else would understand why you are laughing, but you and him do. And that's all that matters, when you think about it.

5. There are no perfect marriages, but there are perfect moments.

Cherish those. Embrace those. Write them down, remember them, look back on them. 

You'll find you wouldn't trade them for the world.

Happy Anniversary to my love, Tyler.

One year down, Eternity to go.

xoxo.