November 10th~ It's Our Anniversary 💚

 Together we can face any challenges as

 deep as the ocean and as high as the sky....

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and 

challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when 

distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us, but it didn't.

  We carried on because carrying on is the only thing we can do.

Arvid and I have been together for 24 years, married 

23 of those.  It has not been an easy journey, but one thing

 I can say, it has definitely been an interesting one. 

 One I would not have had, had I not met Arvid.  

He is not your "normal" person, and he says neither

 am I.  We are both grateful and happy for that.

They say that sometimes the roughest roads often lead

 to the top.  When Arvid and I got together, then got married 

there were many who never thought our relationship would

 last, yet here we are.  Life is short, and nobody knows what’s 

around the corner, but I’m up for lots of new challenges. 

Life is full of challenges and surprises and together 

we seem to find them.  It does not get any better than this.  

We may not have the perfect life, but we have each other.

  We have Sniff.  We have our families and friends.  To 

me that  pretty much sums up an almost perfect life.  

When they said that life begins at the end of your 

comfort zone, I want to think that they had Arvid and I 

in mind as well.  We love challenges and are not afraid to 

pursue them.  Some work out others we learn from it 😂

I look forward to what the years ahead have in store 

for us.  I know it will always be an interesting journey

 this thing I call life with Arvid and Sniff.  I would not have 

it any other way.  Life is about the adventures you take and

 the memories you make, and we're not afraid to take them.

I love the part of our lives where we just decided

 on the spur of the moment to trade for two hotels in 

Branson.  Never been there before.  Had no experience 

in running a hotel, but we were "bored" and up for a

 challenge.  One of the best decisions we have made.

Arvid and I met through a dating site when we both

 lived in Fort Lauderdale.  Right after we "connected" 

he asked me out to a concert.  It was the Beach Boys.

  I said no.  He then asked me out to dinner and that 

I accepted.  The rest as they say is history.

For a few years we had a beach house in the Bahamas.

  At first we loved it, we still love The Bahamas, but 

eventually Arvid and I got restless, not to say bored. 

 So we sought another adventure to keep us busy 😂. 

 This was our Lil Red House in Eleuthera, Bahamas.

Arvid and I have lived for over 30 years in Fort Lauderdale.  

In 2022 we decided to change course and moved to Fort Myers, 

Florida.  Life has been/is good to us.  I look forward to many more 

years with Arvid.  Together we are unstoppable.  Just when I think 

we are settling down, we manage to surprise ourselves again.  

We can't seem to sit still for too long, but after moving to 

Fort Myers we got better, and of course we are older.

The years have sure flown by.  How did this 

happen so fast?  Arvid says he will outlive me, the 

way I'm going it sure seems like the case😂

Of all the paths my life could have went on, I'm glad it went

 through the one where it intersects with you.  As Arvid says to me,

 "and it's been you, woman right down the line."  Yes, he quotes from 

songs and sings them to me.  I love this man 💜 and I love our life.

I look at you and I see the rest of my life in front of my eyes...

~Nadiya~