Day One.

Today Walter Eric Red and Carly Runia Red have been married for five years.

I assume we should give eachother high five's or something to applaud our making it five years; but to be frank, five years seems so diminutive a measure as to sum these years of our union in marriage. 

Perhaps it seems diminishing because I don't quite know life apart from E. Red. 

 I think with him I was made whole, fulfilled, complete;

almost living as a half-ling pre-Eric.

Like how the law of Moses was fulfilled in Christ, so was Carly fulfilled in Eric.

(Was that inappropriate?!)

  Now our family has grown to four; and I, as a person, have gained 3 new souls to inhabit my own.

And so it seems life began the day I became Mrs. Red.

So to acknowledge I've been alive as a completed person only five years seems abrupt, to say the least.

Yet, I guess it laudable on this day, August 20th, 2010  to celebrate the commencement of a once half-ling, five years back,

who had her first taste of life in fullness on August 20th, 2005.

p.s.

Amazing how 5 years (including 2 kids) aged us!


p.p.s.
Eric this is your anniversary card this year...so don't expect another drooly exclamation of my love for you.