Today is our anniversary. 7 years. 7 beautiful, tragic, amazing, hard, love and life filled years together. We have been through moves, having a preemie, buying a house, parenting decisions, grief, joy, disagreements, birthdays, career changes, personal growth, and all of the other things that come with building a life together.

And here we are, in our biggest challenge yet.

You’ve held my trembling hand in your steady one. You’ve wiped my tears away, your gaze never wavering. You see my beauty when I’m at my worst. You’ve laughed at really inappropriate jokes with me, adding levity to a time weighed down by unspoken fears and sometimes unrelenting sickness.

Through it all, there has been one thing that has been easy.

Loving you.

God has blessed me so, with you.