Blog-iversary

Alrighty then!

The first day of the first month of 2011 marked the beginning of my fourth year blogging at Needles of Iron.

How about that?  I missed it, didn’t I?

I promised a contest last month, which I remembered about 10 days ago, which was when I first drafted this post.  What to do, what to offer, how to go about it…so many questions and decisions…so much inertia…

This is what I came up with…3 prizes for 3 years…

Three (3) skeins of my hand spun natural grey Shetland, 2-ply, about a DK wgt, totaling ~387 yds.

 Plenty to do something with...

Three (3) Season’s Best recipe books from Pampered Chef (courtesy of Youngest Daughter).

Three (3) felted soaps (not soups) to round it out to three sets of three to fit the three completed years of blogging.

Makes it tidy.  I thought tidy would be nice.  Tidy is nice if tidy is…you know…prompt and all.  But tidy and prompt is as tidy and prompt does…and tidy and prompt didn’t get photos taken and posted, and the road to h-e-double hockey sticks is paved with good intentions…and the post is just now getting up.

But now it's done and up and here's the thing.

Chime in with a comment letting me know that you are out there, and I will draw from the comments for a winner of it all on January 5^th….uh…better make it the 10^th.

7 Years Ago...

...Wonderful Guy and I married each other.

Can't believe it's been that long.

Second chances really are possible.

Thanks, Perry, for asking me to marry you, and for being my best friend.

It just keeps getting better.

Our Anniversary

Six years ago, Wonderful Guy and I married each other.

We began our lives together as friends, growing through, and recovering from the break-up of our first marriage relationships. One could say (and we often do) that we came to know each other our worst and lowest times.

We came out of those times stronger and more aware of what life is about. We shared those lessons, and in that sharing, we came to love each other.

And to accept other. I must say I feel accepted by Wonderful Guy just for me, in a way I haven't felt before. (Except with my own sisters and brother, who let me know all the time exactly where I stand). That is a gift indeed.

One of our promises to each other is openess and honesty. While that may sound obvious to some, I came to understand it was not a given in my previous relationship. It is an ongoing effort to speak my truth kindly, currently, and to take credit for my own feelings.

And it is another gift from Wonderful Guy to let me have my feelings for my own. Without needing to fix me, thank you very much, I am fine the way I am!

We each bring individual gifts and talents to the table, and we each appreciate what the other contributes, neither believing one has it up on the other. (Because, of course, if one did, I would have to set that one straight!)

When my the X left me, I was really truly convinced that was it. I would never ever ever never have another chance. No one would ever love me again, and why would they. I would be alone forever and that was that.

Well. I was wrong.

And I sure am glad I was.

Happy Anniversary, Wonderful Guy.

Five Years

Happy Anniversary, Wonderful Guy.
Five years with you have been…wonderful.

Thanks for being in my life, and sharing your life with me.