#Microblog Mondays: Ten Years

Ten years ago today, I polished up a letter I'd written to Bryce, cleaned the house and made a tasty dinner while he was at work (I had the day off due to the holiday), and got ready for the most stressful 15 minutes of my life.

I had written a letter to him while visiting my best friend, and that letter was basically a treatise on why we should get married. We had talked about getting married before, and Bryce was feeling down on the institution and at one point said in frustration, "Why does it always have to be the guy that proposes?"

Well, I fixed that.

The letter talked about how good we were together, how I believed that marriage would create a deeper partnership and the basis for our family. I included some very unromantic details about how it would be helpful legally, but most of it was why I really, really wanted to officially become husband and wife.

Bryce is a slower reader, and he didn't know exactly what was in store for him, so when I gave him the letter and said "Read this" and then tried (and failed) not to stare at him, he said, "could you go do something for a little bit? You're making me nervous!"

At the end, he got teary, jumped up from his chair, and yelled, "YES! YES I will marry you!" (I was pretty sure he'd say yes, but I was still super nervous myself.)

It was a beautiful moment, and another milestone in our beautiful life. It is crazy to me that it's been 10 years since that moment, and to think on all we've experienced -- the joys and the suffering, the transformation, all that life lived together. We don't have fancy plans for tonight, but I feel like just sitting in our new home, surrounded by our books and cats and cozy nooks and music and yummy food (and maybe a little champagne), that will be celebration enough.

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