One Simple Question: Why?

Written 6/8/2016

Just the other day, I met up with Ben and one of his friends to celebrate a friend's birthday.  I was bursting with excitement to tell Benjamin what I did that day.  My ADHD brain took the first opportunity to blurt it out while someone else was talking.  I said, "I BOUGHT A DOT COM TODAY!"  Ben's surprisingly cool demeanor (he's used to my interruptions) responded with, "That's cool, but why?"

I'm sure a lot of you might be wondering the same thing!  

One of my favorite memories requires me to throw it aaaallllllllll the way back to the night I met Benjamin.  He picked me up in his big truck and took me to the Bottoms for some muddin' fun.  In the middle of a field, he took his foot off the gas and said, "Oh no!  I think we're stuck!"  I STILL ask Ben to describe the look on my face that night all the time.  And, every time I ask, it brings the sweetest smile on his face.  :)

Here I was, stuck in a huge truck, with this cute boy whose middle name I didn't even know!  I thought the farmer that owned the land was going to come chase us off his property with huge shotguns.  I thought the truck was going to sink into a hole underneath the mud.  I thought the cops were going to come and I was going to have to run in the mud with my flip flops and a jean skirt.  All of these thoughts were plastered on my face when he said we were stuck.  And just before a full blown panic attack could surface, he smiled and told me he was kidding.  

I STILL feel the tears of laughter (and probably relief lol) that rolled down my eyelashes.  

I STILL feel the soreness from our deep belly laughs, as I told him, "You got me SO good!"  

I STILL fall in love with that story every time it is told.  

And THAT little memory right there, is the reason I wanted to create this website/blog.  I wanted to use this space to record our adventures, our emotions, and our trials throughout our marriage.  Too many things fall to amnesia over time.  The "holy" Pinterest quote boards will tell you:  Love is a journey, not a destination.  To imply the latter, is to imply that love is destined for stagnation and stillness.  In reality, It is through the journey by which our hearts and souls are deepened by the joy and pain of love over time.  Capturing that depth is what this blog is all about.

And what better way than to use my amazingly cheesy, pointless wedding hashtag as the pinnacle of this website?  :)