Andreae Adventures: Happy 4 Year Anniversary!

Happy 4 Year Anniversary to us!

All I can really say this year is "Wow...this has been the toughest year yet!"

From my perspective, I would say Bobby and I are probably the farthest apart, emotionally, from each other as we have ever been. We are having a really hard time with the whole pyramid of relationships...God, our marriage, our kids, then our families. It is really hard to want to put forth much effort on my part toward my relationship with Bobby with me being sleep-deprived and stressed out, and him being stressed and busy, too. We have just had SO much going on in this last year. I hope we are able to focus more on us in this next year, at least there will be no babies this coming year!

Here is a list (from what I can remember at this point) from this last year:

1. Moved into a new house (a little before our 3rd year anniversary but I'm still counting it)
2. Got pregnant with Aubrey
3. Natalie turned 1
4. FINALLY sold our old house
5. Construction on the basement began (still not complete)
6. Aubrey was born!
7. Adjusting to having now 2 babies
8. Construction of the fence began (still not complete)
9. Adjusting being a mom of 2 and returning to work

Is that enough for now...those are the major events, but we sure had many smaller events along the way. Talk about stress! I don't know if we could have handled anymore life-changing events in the year. Might explain why this year of marriage was not all butterflies and roses...not that I necessarily expected it to be, but man was it a hard one!

Parenting 1 child was hard enough, but adding the 2nd I feel spiraled my (lack of) patience out of control. Sometimes I feel stressed beyond belief and adding Bobby to the mix is sometimes the 'straw that breaks the camel's back.'

We survived it, but just barely! I think one of our saving graces was the small group we belonged to just before Aubrey was born that was all about marriage and how to be successful. I think we have definitely slacked off on that, but it was nice to have a weekly reminder of how we should be treating each other. We are joining another this fall, but it's not necessarily on marriage, but hopefully we can relate to the others in our group as well.

I hope this next year we can start to reconnect and remember why we began this journey in the first place! I love you Bobby, and here is to many more, hopefully slightly less eventful, years to come!

Here's a look back:

2005 (starting dating Christmas 2004)