Vows

Arthur and I have live in our current locale about 2 ½ years now.  Just a short time ago I finally hung the last frame on the wall that has been sitting on the floor since we moved in.  I figured since I had dusted it several times and was getting tired of vacuuming around it on the floor I should get it up on the wall.  The problem was that I wanted to print copies of our wedding vows to hang in the frame.  First I couldn’t find the file they were saved in on my computer or I couldn’t remember if they were just tucked in some email somewhere and not actually a Word document.  Once I located the files then we went through the process of switching laptops and all the files had to be transferred.  My next hurdle was that the new laptop doesn’t work with the printer.  Does this sound like anyone else’s projects?  Once I got all the pieces together it took 10 minutes to put it in the frame and hang it on the wall.  And I love it.  Arthur and I wrote our own vows (completely his idea but I am glad he talked me into it now).  Every so often as I rush by the frame I will take a moment to read those promises and reflect on the covenant we made with one another.  As hard as it was for me to write the vows, did I realize how hard to would be to live out those words in the day to day grind? To show patience and forgiveness, to love unconditionally, to accept faults and strengths.   We were young, in love, and had no idea what we were saying.  A few years later we are still young, in love, and only slightly better understand to what we were committing.   Occasionally we will joke, “Let me check to see if that was covered in the vows” or “I better refer to the vows before I make my decision.”  

Recently in looking back at older blog posts I realized that our marriage has been fairly well documented but we haven’t included much about what brought us together to the point of exchanging vows.  With Valentine’s Day around the corner and the winter being rather slow as far as blog topics I am planning a series of posts that shares the highlights of the dating years of our love story.  It will probably never become a Nicholas Sparks novel or the plot for a dramatic romance movie, although several items could be used for material on The Big Bang Theory.  Omnia Vincit Amor.