We started this blog back in January as a candid account of our march to the non-traditional, traditional-inspired "aisle." Just between you and me, that seems like a decade ago! This year has been so dazzlingly full on all fronts that it may take a while to simply put everything that has gone down into some palatable perspective...
In the past year, Teri and I have planned a wedding; gotten hitched; moved to a new home and neighborhood; volunteered for various projects, boards, committees and events; worked; prepared hundreds of meals; baked dozens of cakes & pies; listened to a lot of troubles; had a ton of laughs; done probably a thousand loads of laundry; opened a hundred cans of cat food; turned over the guest room to the new-to-us teenager; survived a few squabbles and cried a teapot full of tears. It has been a well-lived twelve months.
It is hard for me to imagine that our version of partnership, this marriage that we are making is very unique or different from the legalized hetero versions. Our special gay money doesn't buy special gay toilet paper to share with our special gay spawn who are somehow recognizably different from other young 20-somethings. The macaroni and cheese we make isn't made with special rainbow pasta and lavender cheese (although I know some who might think that dandy.) This past year, we squabbled over the most ordinary of things and got hooked on Mad Men just like everyone else.
So, as we sit here on the eve of 2012, Teri and I are just a couple weeks away from the anniversary of the day we met (on a grey, but dry January day)--what will this coming year bring in terms of job, life, surprises? Will we be able to keep our health and our senses of humor? We hope there will be a lot less cake and a lot more travel, but who knows? Life, after all, is in the details...
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