My Partner

I have been listening to the station "Heart of Life" that Pandora suggested.  I love it.  It has a lot of my music that I love and it's upbeat.  After weeks of listening to it (while cleaning mostly), I realized something tonight:  it's all about relationships and love.  Love is the heart of life.

More importantly, it's who you love and who is next to you on this journey.  As women we can get down on our husbands and nit pick.  We truly are the stronger sex. ;)  That said, there is a reason that each of us has ended up with who we did.

Jim is mine.

He's not perfect, he's a work in progress and there are times I just sit back and go... "why?!"  But really, he's a blessing in this too. He fits me, in all his imperfection and me in all of mine.  From the time we dated, Jim and I were polar opposites. OPPOSITES! In every way.  Except one: our faith.

If there is one thing that I think should be in sync, it's your faith and beliefs because when everything else is crumbling, that holds strong and rebuilds.  I'm learning that it's not just quirky that Jim and I are so opposite but it's divine and it works.   Where I lack, he shines.  Where he trips, I'm strong.  Ying and yang.

There are posts that I want to write singing his praises and there are posts I want to write completely bashing him.  But I won't.  This life is trying... especially the path we chose, but we are making it.  Little by little.  We're standing beside each other and working through.  We got married right after our 23rd birthdays.  We became parents at 23, 25, and again at 27.  At the age that most of our peers were just getting married, we were moving for the 3rd time, buying a house and birthing our third child in three years.

Looking at raw facts, you'd expect the strongest marriage to falter through that and I'm proud to say we may have been shaken at times, but we never fell.  For better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health.  Til death do us part.  I stand behind that 100% and am blessed to have Jim at my side through this.  He's not so bad after all. ;)

Here's a little time line just for kicks:

Dating: 2001-2006 

I do: May 2006

June: March 2007

Josh: November 2008

Elizabeth: July 2010

Pregnant with Roch: August 2011

Now:

Seeing those photos makes my heart swell.  It also makes me wonder who comes next. :) Who is planned for our #4 (#5?).  God is good.