6th Anniversary

6 years! WOW!

6 years ago, this Sunday, I was waiting to walk down the aisle to say "I do" to becoming Mrs Russell.

My father was standing with me outside our family church, asking "Are you sure you want to do this? Is this really the man you want to spend the rest of your life with?" and I could look him in the eye and answer honestly "Yes, Dad, it is!"

This Sunday will be 6 years we have been married. I can hardly believe it. We have had our ups and downs, and our cultural differences now and then because of the ways we grew up, and our different backgrounds, however, we have always come back and spoken about them before the night is through.

My brother in law, said to me before we got married, do me a favor, don't have children before you have been married 5 years. Now, he was half joking at the time, and says now he doesn't remember saying it, however, it was because he and his wife were having problems at the time, and were about to enter a 'messy' divorce which is still not sorted, but that's not my story.

We have been married now 6 years, and still don't have children. Many people have asked us when we will have them, to which we reply "When God allows us to have children we will have them. We can not do anything more than what we are allowed to do."

In our 6 years of marriage, we have spent much of it living on top of each other in 1 room apartments and only recently have we moved into a 3 room house, and yet we are still often in the same room when we are both home. It feels strange not to be in the same room often.

I have been thinking about what to do in the gift department for our anniversary, and looking at the chart I posted last year, traditional gifts would be candy or iron, and modern gifts include wood. None of these really scream my husband to me. I guess I'll have to think outside the box for him this year.