Or, “How the Craziest Thing I Ever Did Was the Smartest Thing I Ever Did”<\/p>\n
Six years ago today, I arrived in Sweden, with my four-year-old daughter in tow, to move in with a man I hadn’t yet met in person. Plenty of people would–and did–call that stupid, but I never had a moment’s hesitation. Really.<\/p>\n
At the time, I told myself that I just “knew” it was right and that everything would work out. For a long time I was pretty smug about having been right, but with a little distance from the initial rush I realized that I probably owed as much to good luck as to good instinct. That doesn’t change the fact, though, that I was right.<\/p>\n
I usually try to steer clear of sappiness here, but I have to say that my marriage to Olof is the stuff dreams are made of. I couldn’t have made a better match if I’d created him myself. Every day I think to myself how lucky I am to be with him. He’s kind and generous, patient and easy-going, funny and smart, and so many other wonderful things that I’d be here writing all night if I tried to list all of them.<\/p>\n
And, perhaps best of all, if you asked him, he’d say that he<\/em> was lucky to be with me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or, “How the Craziest Thing I Ever Did Was the Smartest Thing I Ever Did” Six years ago today, I arrived in Sweden, with my four-year-old daughter in tow, to move in with a man I hadn’t yet met in person. Plenty of people would–and did–call that stupid, but I never had a moment’s hesitation.… Read More Anniversary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}