Month of Anniversaries

March, ironically, seems to be our lucky month. The happiest and momentous events in my life all seem to take place in March. I don’t mean for them to, of course. That’s just how my life happened. Just smelling the air outside this time of year just fills me with so many great memories. Let me recall:

March 27 2004—Moved across the country: This was a big step for my 19 year old self. I had applied to and been accepted to a culinary school, so I moved. This picture was taken the moment my dad and I finished our 3 day cross-country voyage. Leaving my family, most specifically my mom and sister (the others were still asleep) in tears at 5:00 am was one of the hardest things I ever had at that point in my life. But after a couple hours on the road, I was ready for the adventure that lay ahead. And any nervousness I had about moving to a new place quickly subsided when we received the warmest of welcomes at my sister Cami’s house where I was to live. A day I will always remember. Yikes, that was seven years ago!

March 17, 2005--First kiss with KC: This was also the day we had what people call a D.T.R. (Define the Relationship) and decided that we’d like to take things to the next level, as they say. We’d been friends for a while, and then when he tried to pursue me, I didn’t want anything of it. I felt his time to woo me had passed, and we were better as friends. But after about a week of KC trying everything he could think of to get me to change my mind, I realized he meant business and a saw a new side of him that I really liked. So the kissing began, and it’s still going strong. (This picture was taken a week or two later.)

March 4, 2006—We got married: Yes, we just had our 5th wedding anniversary, and what a five years it’s been! We celebrated with a low-key dinner out, and talked about all we’ve been through to get to this point. I hope we fill our next five years together with as many good memories as the first. I do love that guy.

 

March 18, 2009: Found out I was Pregnant: I must say, this was one of  THEE BEST days of my LIFE! Every detail has been forever ingrained in my brain. How upset and anxious I was during the blood test that morning, how frustrated I was at myself for putting myself though that agony again, how beautiful the day was, how I couldn’t stop the tears from flowing freely, how calm I felt at the temple, and mostly how incredibly and unbelievably happy I was when I heard the great news. It was more disbelief in the beginning, but turned quickly to gratitude and pure joy. I went from my lowest low to my highest high in a matter of hours. I’ll never, ever forget it. That was two years ago today!

March 30, 2009—Found out it was Triplets: Becoming pregnant at all was pretty overwhelming, but finding out we had three little heartbeats to love really put me over the edge. Of the three embryos we had transferred a few weeks earlier (this was our 4th and final attempt at IVF), one had failed, but one had split. I was thrilled, then terrified, then excited, then upset, all in those first few minutes of learning this news. We felt this was great news, but the doctors were giving us worse case scenarios. We had no idea what was to come in the next few months, but felt it was okay to be cautiously optimistic. I was in a bit of a daze all day. A happy daze. I still can’t believe those little smudges turned into the chubby kids I get to kiss all day. (This is my 8-week ultrasound.)  

March has definitely been good to us. I wonder what else it has in store for the future.