One Year Later

We celebrated our one year anniversary on Sunday. It was a quiet weekend without much planned activity, which was a nice change after the last few weeks.

I kept thinking of all the hub-hub that was going on a year ago at this time. Having all the family in town, desperately trying to finish the tasks that still needed to be done for the wedding, etc. And then actually enjoying our rehearsal dinner and the next day's wedding and reception.

The year has passed rather fast and I am happily ensconced in married life. I'm not sure whether I "feel" married, though (if there is such a feeling). After the wedding I did have a definite sense of change-of-state, but now it just feels like we're in the groove, the way it's supposed to be. I never had a "what have I done?!?" type of moment or any feeling of suffocation. I didn't really expect that to be a problem with Jennifer, but I certainly used to wonder whether getting tied for life with a person might bring some of that up.

We went to Fr. Cletus' church on Sunday and experienced another two hour mass (I get the feeling that we actually got off easy on our wedding). The sermon was aptly about marriage, but two hours?!? In the evening we unpacked the (by me) dreaded one-year-old wedding cake top. It turned out quite tasty and not at all stale--although the icing looked tired and the flower decoration a bit limp.

So here's to the next year and to the things it might bring us.