Ten Years - Time Flies

Ted and I are celebrating our ten year anniversary. It's a double anniversary for me, as one year ago today, I started at Delta Air Lines - an amazing job at an amazing place.

As we sat at dinner tonight, I asked him, "where do you think we'll be in ten years? In ten years, I'll be 63 and you'll be turning 70".

We discussed the places we want to go:

west coat and drive the Pacific Coast Highway
Chicago - drive Lake Shore Drive
The east coast and drive through New England
Sea Island, Georgia - Ted was telling me about it and now I must go!!!
back to Europe
just to name a few

We discussed our grandkids:

Aedynn will turn 25
Zach will be 20
Chelsea will be 17
Lydia will turn 17 the next day
Gabriel will be 16 (and all three will be driving!!)
Cash will be 12
Penny will be 11
Harper will turn 10 that year

It's amazing how fast the time goes. It's crazy how fast things change. When Ted and I got married, Aedynn was just barely out of toddler stage. Zachary was months old. We have added six grandchildren to our brood.

We moved into our house two months after we got married, now we are working on completely updating our living room and I have plans for updating our bedroom. Last summer we built our patio and just yesterday we had our first barbecue of the season to celebrate Mother's Day. We are very content with our lives together - though things are continually changing in our outside worlds.

Here's to looking into the future and watching what more is in store for us.

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