Happily Ever After

You know when you are little (or even just single) and you dream of your knight in shining armor riding up on his white horse to whisk you away from all of your troubles and problems? You think he is the cure all, the answer to all your problems, and life will be blissfully perfect after you wed, right? Reality check. Real life still happens even with the most amazing Knight (which has been my dream come true).

Much to my dismay, as blissfully happy as Cameron makes me, I’m still Jill. I still:

• Have my fat days (and as you can tell that is every day with my expanding waist line – I guess married life does that)
• Get PMS with a vengeance
• Have those “just one of those days” days
• Get down on myself
• Get stressed over audit letters from the Tax Commission and other facets of “real life”
• Want to just curl up and have a good cry

I didn’t expect these things to just disappear I guess, but they just weren’t outlined in my version of Happily Ever After.

Luckily for me, there is a huge up side to my Happily Ever After. It is:

• Experiencing all of the above with a patience, loving husband
• Surviving and growing together through the “bad days” and “bad moods”
• Having a husband who finds everything I do sexy and beautiful (this happens to be in my Top 3 Favorite Things of Being Married)
• Rolling over in bed to have my Knight in Shining Armor there to cuddle up to
• Regardless of me being me or just being a girl, Cameron loves me in spite of it all
• Having a “person.” You know, the one you call to vent to, to rejoice with, to share good news with and get excited with, the one you call on your way home from work just to talk (and because you can), etc.
• Coming home to someone who can’t wait to see me (and that I can’t wait to see)
• Strong arms to curl up in when I just need to just have myself a “good cry”
• Cameron being the calm in any storm I seem to conjure up
• The indescribable blessing of the knowledge that we have an eternal marriage
• Waking up each morning and realizing I love Cameron even more than I did the day before
• Getting to make love and finding that almost anything is funner if you do while naked

Being at the beginning of an amazing journey with the love of my life and anxiously awaiting all that comes our way – good and bad.

Obviously my list of Happily Ever After could continue as eternally as our marriage, and I hope it does. Marriage may not be a cure all, but I wouldn’t have it be one. As annoying as the hiccups of life are, experiencing them and working through them with your other half is one of the most gratifying things.

I always dreamed of Knight in Shining Armor (and maybe doubted ever finding him), but I found him and he exceeds every expectation I had and I love him.

Here’s to my real Happily Ever After.