Before JJ and I head out to our New Year’s Eve party (a wine tasting and hors d’eourves event at Josh and Mamie’s) we decided to go out to dinner. We went to Ted’s Montana Grill, one of our favorite places, and split a burger. JJ got mashed potatoes to go with his, I got macaroni and cheese. While we ate we talked about how 2006 had gone and how different we are now than we were a year ago. For instance, 2005 was the year we got married. 2006 was the year we learned how to be married. In 2005 we had a wedding, in 2006 we had an anniversary and so on. As we talked JJ started talking about how different his life is now than it was 5 or 6 years ago. He said something that really struck me and I thought it was both profound and beautiful, plus, as his wife, it made me all warm and fuzzy inside. JJ said that 5 or 6 years ago he would be sitting in church on Sunday morning and while he would have been content and satisfied (after all, JJ is one of those people who didn’t really mind being single) there would have been part of him that was waiting for his life to begin. There would have been part of him wondering who he was going to marry, and what she would be like, how they would get along, and so on. And then he said, “But now, I feel like I don’t have to wait anymore. I feel like my life has finallly begun.”
Happy New Year’s. I’ll see you 2007.
