Love Marriage

Today is my blogiversary and if I�m to be honest I almost forgot. Normally I would have thought about what to write, etc, but unfortunately I�m not prepared. I just celebrated 1000 posts a few weeks ago so I don�t think I have much more to add to that. I�m pretty excited that my blog turns 8 today and am still in shock that I�ve been blogging for 8 years. What started as a way to get me out of the post wedding planning blues turned into a journal of my life journey of the last 8 years. Anyway, Happy 8th birthday, Life.Love&Marriage. Maybe one day I�ll change my blog name, but until then ...

When I began this blog on January 2nd 2010, I was a newlywed. We weren't even at the two month stage of marriage. When I think of that person, I smile because I was free of heartache, true pain and my motivation was to be able to stay at my wedding weight. Life was really good and I had not yet experienced many bumps or hiccups along the road. In 2013, my worries were having to relocate from NY to PA. I did not like unemployment. I missed my friends. I missed our little home. That is what my worries were. At the time, they were valid worries because like I said, I had not yet experienced much bumps or hiccups along the road. 2014 whipped me right into shape. It was the year I learned of my mom's diagnosis and it was the first time in my life that I knew of true confusion, denial, anger, pain and so many other emotions that I had never felt before. I was a walking zombie and my thoughts were consumed with all the things that I could not control. It led to many sleepless...