Celebration
Today Heli Dad and I celebrate 18 years as a couple – 12 of them married. We were very particular about the date of our wedding while we were planning. We gave a variety of reasons for it but at the core of our thinking was simply that we wanted to become a married couple on the same day that we became a couple. We were tremendously lucky in that we were also able to get married at the place where we met, spent a couple weeks getting to know one another, and where we decided that despite the distance that would be between us (we were teenagers living in different towns about an hour away from the other) we wanted to be together. I won’t say that our lives together have been nothing but good – we, like all couples, have had our issues. There have been ups and downs but through it all we’ve stuck together and done our best to remember why we wanted to be together in the first place. I’m lucky to say that I married my best friend. 12 years after the wedding, he’s still my best fr...