Twenty-Three to Life
Today would have been 23 years with him. I didn't notice until later in the afternoon when the date stuck in my mind for a moment and I had to think why. It's a curious musing to wonder what life would have been like if he hadn't been him and I hadn't been me. Some of our friends who married the same time as us are still together. Some divorced before we did. Some divorced after. Life is still life-ing for us all. The beginning of 2003 held so much excitement and promise, and it delivered in a multitude of ways with the birth of our daughter. The end of 2004 was learning our son was on the way. Two-thousand-five to 2006 was his deployment, and the beginning of a decade of splitting my life in two: heaven with my children and hell with him. Now we just began 2026 and I'm on the verge of the greatest joy of my life with a new son-in-law and a grandbaby on the way. It's his grandbaby, too, I suppose. I didn't think of that until now, either. I wonder if he'...