Ten years! I cannot believe that today my hubby and I have been married for an entire decade. Sometimes it feels like just yesterday we were standing under an autumn sky committing our lives and love to one another. Other days it feels like we’ve been married our entire lives. Remembering a time before each other is almost impossible. As our anniversary has approached, I’ve been considering what these ten years of life could be likened too and it finally came to me. Marriage so far has been like one giant Spartan Race – starting out eagerly, full of energy; soon pushing, pulling and lifting one another up the next obstacle and the next; missing the target but not moving on until we hit it; crawling through the mud while trying not to get ripped open by the barbed wire just above us; carrying our weights and sometimes carrying each other; grasping and reaching and shouting encouragements (or the opposite) to keep putting one foot in front of the other; doubling over in tears and ex...