This weekend mark our 7th year wedding anniversary. It is such a cliche, but 7 years seem to have fly by quickly.
The 7 years have been filled with adventures. There were moments of stillness, but mostly, we stood side by side each other.
The low lights
- Managing through cancer in the family
- Stumbling through my grandmother’s health and death
- Dealing with infertility
- Work issues
- Finding out feet as a couple, learning about our values
- Learning how to live with each other and working out how to manage our differences
Then we have our high lights
- Celebrating pregnancy and birth of our son
- Travelling
- Learning and embracing our identity as a couple
- Building and moving into our home
- Learning how to be a couple again
I’m sure we have more in both lists 🙂
The last point about learning how to be a couple though rings so true to us right now. Being a parent certainly adds to a different dimension of being a couple for sure. So far this year, we have decided to change a few things to enjoy tine being parents but also to have time being together as a couple. We are definitely finding that hard as whatever little time we have together is filled with conversation about everything else.
Yet 7 years of marriage has taught me one big thing. Persistence. That’s the beauty of marriage. While there needs to be an element of urgency (if not, we would be pushing our marriage to the back burner!), it is the persistence and the vow of commitment that stood out clearly. The “ok, that didn’t work out too well, let’s try again..and again..and again..and again” with the most important thing reviewing and trying. 
Here is to even MORE years of being us and loving being us!
I would return soon with our celebration cake but HEY nothing spells celebration than chocolate right? This uses tahini, coconut butter and almond butter. It was so good that I cannot stop licking the spoon! Best of all, it is raw so it really takes seconds to whip up. 
Happy 7th Year Wedding Anniversary 🙂
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