10 Great Years!

Ten years of marriage can culminate into many interesting life experiences and changes. Dear Husband and I have definitely had our share, including many accomplishments we are proud of and some big life events we survived together. A mental review of the past decade of our lives resulted in the following list:

• 5 years of paying off all monetary debt (except for the mortgage)
• 5 years of being completely debt free (except for the mortgage)
• 3 1/2 years living in Oregon
• 1 yr and 2 months living in an apartment as newlyweds
• The tragic death of a cat due to a reaction to a vaccine
• The adoption of an 8 wk old kitten
• 2 yrs and 3 months living in our first house
• 3 anniversaries spent watching ocean storms on the Oregon coast
• 7 anniversaries spent doing nothing too fabulous in Missoui (Missouri is rather dull compared to the Oregon coast)
• 1 computer networking degree
• 1 master's degree in clinical psychology
• 1 professional counselor's license
• 11 job changes between the two of us (9 of them mine)
• 4 vehicles purchased
• 4 vehicles sold
• 1 cross country move
• 6 1/2 years living in Missouri
• 6 yrs and 2 months living in our second house
• 6 1/2 yrs without children
• 2 yrs and 4 months with one beautiful little girl
• 1 yr and 1 1/2 months with one beautiful little girl and one adorable little boy
• The deaths of 3 grandparents
• Several job promotions
• The traumatic extrication from our home of the cat we adopted 9 years previously
• The death of a 19 1/2 yr old geriatric cat who was my best furry friend for all of those years
  

And last, but definitely not the least, 10 great years of marriage with a man who had a much more stable (and boring) life before he met me!