Friday, April 30, 2010

the anniversary of greatness and misery

First, the good.

Today is our fifth wedding anniversary. We are still very much in love, wonderful friends, and enjoying our marriage. I couldn’t ask for more. I’m truly blessed and looking forward to the rest of our lives together.

It is also an anniversary of great sadness. Two years ago today we were PNGd from Belarus. You can read this previous post for the full story. I keep hoping that as time passes, I will begin to forget and forgive, but I’m just not there yet. For those of you in the FS, may you never, ever have to live through such a horrible experience.

There isn’t much else to say. Have a safe and happy weekend.

10 comments:

  1. Oh C...I didn't know that on top of everything else you had to go through that too. Of course it wasn't your fault and there was nothing you could do. But I can still feel the sadness. Much love my friend, and happy anniversary, Fran

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  2. Happy anniversary - wow what a day of meanings and memories. I'm so sorry you were PNGd. Never heard thst term before - now I know what it means.
    Take care:)

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  3. congratulations on 5 wonderful years! was it really that long ago that were in Arizona?:-)

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  4. We got PNG'ed from Russia about 10 years ago. At the time it was pretty stressful, esp as we had both devoted years in grad school to learning the darn language, and we really loved the place. Now, it's more funny than anything. But it took awhile to get to the funny part.

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  5. Hope you had a great anniversary.

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  6. It was our fifth wedding anniversary on Friday too. I hadn't realised that we were wedding "twins"! Hope you had a nice weekend x

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  7. Donna, I didn't realize that you had been through it too. I doubt I'll ever get to the point of finding it funny, though maybe. From what I've been told, nothing like our situation had ever happened before and not only did it drag on for months, but was grossly mishandled by someone. Someone who ultimately "changed her mind", her words, on a very important issue. Wonder if I can put the details in my "tell all" book some day ;)

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  8. A few days late but happy anniversary C. What a story, i just read it for the first time. An exciting life in the FS but sometimes crazy huh? Seems to be that way anyway. xoxo

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  9. Happy Anniversary - for the good part, and best wishes that the bad soon becomes nothing more than a story to tell in future.

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