We're like peanut butter and jelly...most of the time...

Hey! Guess what!?

Marriage is HARD!!!!!

{I mean, you knew that already, but I thought I would just write it out anyway...}

Sometimes I get things like this on our shopping list:

Seriously, how freaking cute is THAT?
Brian-Peanut Butter

Kari-Jelly

I know!

These types of things make me feel all warm in fuzzy inside.

But then there are some days when I feel like this:

Or something there abouts....

{Please refer to my friend Hannah's blog post about the root of such matters...!! }

The shopping list moments remind me that we really are like peanut butter and jelly--
we go great together!

 Our wedding vows even talked about this:

"Like Santa and Mrs. Claus--we go great together."

{Yes, this is a real excerpt from our vows... :)}

 I know that when we *fight* {ugh! what an ugly word!} we benefit from it--in the long run.

We eventually communicate about what really matters and some of those
 "core issues" are revealed and cared for.

 Thank God.

Ultimately I know that I love my husband with EVERYTHING that I have

and ALL that I am.

  I would be utterly lost without him.

And even when we don't see eye to eye;

 and as we build bridges between personality traits that separate us,

we truly go great together...

even better than peanut butter and jelly.