waltondammerung

The "wood" anniversary--does that make a wooden nickel an appropriate gift?

Today marks the end of my first 5 years as Mrs. Joshua Walton. I feel like this is our first real milestone. We've been married long enough now that I have a fleeting notion of what it will probably be like to have been married 15, 25, or even 35 years. After our third and fourth years together, I still felt like I was venturing into unknown territory. There are still a lot of things about Josh that are mysterious to me, but I feel like we've finally hit a nice stride in the last year. I don't mean to say that we didn't get along before that, but in the last 12 months we seem to have had a lot of "aha" moments, when things finally made sense on a deep, sort of intuitive level instead of just a "well, I guess that's just how he works, but I don't really get it" level. That probably means it's time to throw some kids into the mix to bring back some uncertainty. :) (No, Kellee, I am *not* pregnant.) We're really becoming a solid team. The whole process of learning to work as a unit is fascinating and challenging in a way that nothing else is. It can be frustrating, but the pay-off from working through the frustrating stuff together is more than worth it. If a measly five years gets us something this great, I'm really looking forward to seeing what the Walton family looks like in another five years.