I know that I have been far beyond delinquent in my updates. Though I've thought about all the post-worthy moments frequently, I can say no more than life swept me up in its luster and craze, and that has left this blog empty of new posts for the better of five months! There is no way to put all of our activities and experiences into one neat little package here for your reading pleasure; instead, I've decided to speak in general about the feelings this year has produced for Team Sisenshelly (and for me specifically). It really has been quite a ride this year!
Team Sisenshelly celebrated happy milestones this year, such as my 30th birthday (which was CELEBRATED and received JOYOUSLY, despite the stigma upon reaching that age), and Jeff's 31st. We've relaxed with friends and have enjoyed celebrating milestones with them (and at times with their families), such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, births, and other new beginnings. Spending some much-needed time with family this year has also been on our list of experiences (although I haven't gotten to see much of my Long Family relatives since the wedding, something that is deeply in need of remedy!) We've continued our quest to get healthy and to live our best life together, joining gyms and pools, taking our bikes out on the trail, and walking a whole lot more! All in all, our successes have motored us forward in our relationship (with each other and with others) and especially in our marriage.
Our little team has also had some major scares and trials this year, but we emerged, for the most part, unscathed (and consider ourselves lucky to have done so). We are grateful, ever so grateful, for what we have, more so because we have watched sorrow and tragedy strike the lives of many of the ones we love this year. I have watched those I love most grieve in very private and public ways. I know that I am not physically able to take their pain or to understand fully what they have experienced, but I have grieved for them, in ways that I would not have thought possible even a year ago. I think this is a testement to the love I understand within with Jeff...knowing a love like this made it more possible to empathize with my hurting friends, and to offer support where I could. I have loved those friends more deeply, too, than I would have been able to without Jeff. I am ever more mindful now than ever of my friends and their experiences, of all they have been through and continue to go through daily, and of all they have to look forward to in this life; I also recognize what Jeff and I have to relish in our lives, and that life is so precious....and what life is really all about: LOVE.
My friends, I want you to know tonight that I love each of you...for who you are and what you bring to my life. You can thank Jeff, when you see him, for making this love more and more possible each day.
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