Halfway Through
A couple of the bloggers around the internet have mentioned that we’re halfway through the year, which I probably wouldn’t have even thought about if it hadn’t have been brought to my attention.
I decided to look back and see if I had set any resolutions or anything like that.
I looked through my archives and found this love letter to Mr. JM from the beginning of January:
“Dear Mr. JM,
It seems strange to call you ‘Mr. JM’ and type to you even though you are sitting mere feet away from me. However, I have always been more eloquent on the page (or, in this case, on the screen) than I am when I’m speaking.
These last few months have been a little less than ideal, as you know. We’ve both been having ‘growing pains’ and we’ve been looking at our future and what we’d like to make of it. There have been things that have come along to annoy us, and we’re more than able to annoy each other, but I feel like we’re back on the path we need to be on right now.
I know I haven’t been easy to deal with for a while, and I’m sorry for that. Thank you for understanding that I’m still figuring out who I am. Thank you for your patience and your kindness. I can’t express what it means to me when you do the little things you do just because you know they will make me smile.
Thank you also for the times you have sat down without complaint when I’ve just wanted to talk. For the times when we both have a lot of work to do, but we still take time to play a game of online pool with each other. Maybe on the outside it looks a bit silly, but we’re doing what we can to spend time with each other.
This year I will continue to try being a better wife to you and helping you by letting you know what I need. We’ve had a lot of growing to do recently, so here’s to reaping the benefits of what we’ve learned.
Love always,
Your wife”
Things have certainly been growing and moving since then. While we haven’t moved physically, many things have now come to pass. Now we’re looking at new jobs, moving, saving up for our future, looking at our health (in regards to baby making), and much more.
I always felt bad about how much of 2008 I lost to being stressed about work and all of that, but at the halfway point, I feel I’m doing a lot better than I did last year. We’ve taken time for each other, for holidays, for talking and for planning.
All in all, I can’t wait to see where we will be at in another six months.
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