Anniversary

A decent photo became a struggle so this will have to do.

We had been together 20 years on this day.

That's a hell of an achievement. I was only four years older than dd when we met. That blows my mind but also reminds me how much you grow up in these intervening years. He changed the course of my life irrevocably but I would make the same decision over and over.

Age is a funny thing and ageing together is even odder. I don't feel much different from then. Happier, more content, fatter (but not by a great deal), 3 children, mortgages, cars. He is grey, I am getting there.

My friends have not altered a great deal and our relationship bought some fabulous people into my life.

Brilliantly I got to be an auntie. I don't think I ever will through my brother so I grasped the opportunity and have loved it. When we went on holiday without our nieces and nephews and missed them desperately we decided to have children. A choice I will never regret.

We are a little battle scarred, it has not been a charmed life but it has been a good one.

I can only hope that the next twenty years are as good but with a little less drama.