John and I are quickly approaching our 1 year anniversary, perhaps a little too quickly with all the stuff we have going on, yet it's almost here. We had big plans to go on a repeat honeymoon trip, to celebrate our year of not killing each other, but with the demands of medical school..blah, blah...we are instead going for a weekend up to Traverse City the second weekend of June, postponed as it is I'll take it. Don't feel too bad for me, we aren't going to skip the actual date all together, we will probably do dinner at home on our anniversary date, eat our year old wedding cake (yuck!), and flip through our wedding photos after John gets home from taking his respiratory final and anatomy practical. But after a year like we just had one night to celebrate does not do justice to the joys and triumphs we have faced So even though it will be almost a month delayed, we will celebrate right with a long weekend to Old Mission Peninsula.
Every time I hit some type of milestone I like to reflect on the good and bad over the year. Sure, I work a minimum of 3 nights a week, and sure John is having an affair with his first aid book, and we have completely different ideas of what clean really means, but I am proud of the people John and I have become over this past year. As independent as I was before we got married (haha, I know, just kidding) I have gotten significantly better at being alone for multiple days. Even though we live in the same apartment, with my night schedule plus his studying, we have gone 3 consecutive days not seeing each other, relying on text messages to get the updates on our lives. The biggest lesson I have learned over this past year it to just live in the moment and be excited for the little things. To my core I am a planner, I have planned in detail every year of my life. Bring it on Medical School! Med school is determined to stress me out, to make any form of planning impossible. Over this year I have learner to just take things as they come, enjoy the little things. In a couple days we will be getting the keys to our new house, although it is just a rental, we will finally have a home. We will have a place to live for three years before we move on to bigger at better things. Three years of staying in one place is more than I could ask for right now and when residency comes we will be starting this process all over again. Instead of looking at this journey as stressful uncertainty, I have been trying to view it as an exciting adventure that will take us places we would never have planned on going before. Along those same lines I have realized the value in doing things that make me happy. I have recently gotten into running again (not as much happy as healthy but its a start) and I have been going to spin classes. With the combination of my job, John's school, not having family close enough to see regularly it is important that I find things I enjoy doing even if it means taking time away from John. When we move to Royal Oak in just a couple weeks I am excited to find new opportunities to take time for myself.
This year has been such an amazing journey, I am not sure what this next year will hold for us but I can not be more excited to find out!
