A Look to the Past

March 20, 1998 –– Ten years ago –– Matt and I graduated from college. Wow. It just seems so weird to type that number.
Yeah, we were sad looking.

Some days I look back and it seems like only yesterday. Other days it seems so long ago. (Okay this is sounding like a Beatles song. Maybe I am watching too much American Idol) So much has happened to us, good and bad, over the past 10 years.

Ten years ago, I never thought my life would be what it is today.

• We have gotten married.
  
• We have three kids. (Who would have thought... Alexis with three kids)
  
• We have moved three times and lived in three different states.
  
• We have dealt with kids broken bones, stitches, seizures, sleep apnea, specialists and a seriously ill child.
• We have buried Matt's mom, his grandfather, his aunt, my great aunt and our daughter.
• Matt took a job with Caterpillar and has been promoted four times.
• I decided to become a SAHM and started my own freelancing business.
• Matt has traveled all over the world –– Mexico, Canada, much of Europe, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia. Pretty cool for a farm boy from Green, Ohio.
  
• We have watched friends and siblings and siblings-in-laws get married and have kids of their own.
  
• We own a minivan, something I swore I would NEVER do. (Guess it goes with the three kids, huh?)
• We have gotten a cell phone and gone high speed. (Just 15 years ago when I started college I learned what email and a CAT5e even was)
• We definitely look much better (see photo above if you think differently)
  
• And somehow we have managed to stay together, even though the odds were so stacked against us.
  

Time goes by so quickly that I cannot even imagine what the next 10 years hold. After all, in 10 years we will have a 22 year old, an 18 year old and a 14 year old. I am sure that no matter what it will exciting and full of lots of bumps and curves. And maybe, just maybe, if blogging still exists, I can tell you all about it.