Nostalgia

The past month has been hectic and crazy.

It started out great, with our first wedding anniversary. We didn't do anything special, we just spent the entire day doing whatever we felt like doing at the time. No schedule to follow. Nowhere to hurry to be. No one besides ourselves to please. Just a simple, relaxing, fun day.

Then things started to change.

We had been working on packing up our stuff to move out of our apartment at the end of August, and all that had been going fairly well. But then the moving our stuff began. Moving is not fun, and I have yet to discover a way to accomplish it without getting stressed out.

Then, on top of that, Chad's parents announced their final decision to get a divorce. That was a sad day, and we've been working through our feelings ever since.

Which brings us to the present. We are successfully moved into Chad's dad's house. Chad is working a job he's not too fond of. I'm trying to finish my last college class via independent study while finding freelance editing jobs. And we are trying to prepare to have our first baby, although we don't really have a clue.

Then today I got an email from my friend who took our wedding photographs. She had some questions about which photos I'd like to order. (Yes, it's been over a year, and I have yet to order my wedding photos. I am a master procrastinator.) So in an attempt to finally end my procrastination of this task, I looked through a slideshow she had sent me to pick out which photos I wanted.

It was wonderful.

Thus far, my wedding day has certainly been one of the happiest and overall best days of my life, and taking the time to look through all those beautiful photos and remembering how I felt back then was like a soothing balm to my worried mind. It was a wonderful day and a wonderful time in my life.

I need to remember, through the crazy and hectic months to come, to look back on the good times—to focus on the good times—because I can count on having more good times in the future no matter what's going on now.