365 days ago today on September 23, 2006, it was raining, then sunny, then raining, then sunny, then rain. As 3:30pm approached, we were trying to decide between holding our wedding ceremony outside on the picturesque west terrace of the Franklin Park Conservatory as we had envisioned it for a year in planning or to save all of our dear aunts' freshly styled hairdos (and admittedly mine too) and hold the ceremony indoors safe from the September rainshowers that fell on our weekend. Erring on the conservative side, Barce made the call to hold the ceremony indoors and what a good decision it was as rain began to pour down ten minutes into our ceremony.
The subsequent 364 days were fraught with far more challenging decisions: to leave a new job with AE that ultimately created more stress than opporutnity, and our new city of Pittsburgh where we began a new life and our first big adventure together, to move back to Columbus and sell the Pittsburgh house after less than a year of ownership and 2 bathroom renovation projects, to switch careers for a second time in less than 12 months embarking in a new unknown challenge of becoming a marketer in the Pharmaceutical industry.
There were several times in the last year when we both wished we could retreat back to the life of a 6-year-old and by saying "I want my mom", things would fix themselves and someone would tell us the right decision. Over several sleepless nights and countless bottles of wine when decisions were difficult and every choice had severe consequences we'd sometimes look at each other and say just that, "I want my mom". Fortunately when consulted, both of our moms pushed those decisions right back on us...and supported us for changing our minds again, in search of greater happiness.
Sometimes it feels like our wedding day was just three months ago but when we reflect on all the change and decisions it also seems like three years. As they say, hindsight is 20/20 but one thing we have learned in this first year is that we do make pretty good decisons in this new life together. From little ones like holding the ceremony indoors to the much bigger ones like finding our way back to Columbus. On September 23, 2007, it's a gorgeous sunny day and fortunately for us the biggest decision we intend make today is what we'll eat for lunch.
The subsequent 364 days were fraught with far more challenging decisions: to leave a new job with AE that ultimately created more stress than opporutnity, and our new city of Pittsburgh where we began a new life and our first big adventure together, to move back to Columbus and sell the Pittsburgh house after less than a year of ownership and 2 bathroom renovation projects, to switch careers for a second time in less than 12 months embarking in a new unknown challenge of becoming a marketer in the Pharmaceutical industry.
There were several times in the last year when we both wished we could retreat back to the life of a 6-year-old and by saying "I want my mom", things would fix themselves and someone would tell us the right decision. Over several sleepless nights and countless bottles of wine when decisions were difficult and every choice had severe consequences we'd sometimes look at each other and say just that, "I want my mom". Fortunately when consulted, both of our moms pushed those decisions right back on us...and supported us for changing our minds again, in search of greater happiness.
Sometimes it feels like our wedding day was just three months ago but when we reflect on all the change and decisions it also seems like three years. As they say, hindsight is 20/20 but one thing we have learned in this first year is that we do make pretty good decisons in this new life together. From little ones like holding the ceremony indoors to the much bigger ones like finding our way back to Columbus. On September 23, 2007, it's a gorgeous sunny day and fortunately for us the biggest decision we intend make today is what we'll eat for lunch.
