as for my act three.....

And.... for my act three..... in just four little weeks.
Act two was pretty rad. I loved my single and dating years, well lets say, we had a love/hate relationship with each other. I explored what it meant to be Jes Kruse. I worked my heart out (physically, mentally, emotionally).  I gave my students and my job 100% of myself.  I played really hard too, during act two, I had experiences that were A-MAZ-ING.
Now comes act three (fyi - act one was my childhood). Act three will have tons of scenes that will happen with Ryan by my side. That's super!!!!!  What an adventure we will have together!
Act three starts with a big party, with people flying from all over the place to celebrate with us.  I love that our big party is happening in the Spring, which signifies new beginnings. 
Ryan and I are so similar and so different and I am really loving getting to know my life partner.  We are both middle children and have a lot of similar personality traits because of that. We love our families to the max. We miss them.
NYC is our home but no one else in our families calls NYC their home, and so Easter was spent in Brooklyn. Just us. Simple. We went to church and then biked down by the East River. Sat between the Brooklyn bridge and Manhattan bridge and talked. I sat and wondered when the Verizon building would be taken down (for all you New Yorkers you know what I mean, it's just such an eye sore). Then we walked to grab hot tea cause April got confused and forgot to give us some warmth.  Since it's Easter we went into my favorite little candy shop in Dumbo and I scooped out some of our favorite candies into a bag.  Biked up to our favorite Middle Eastern spots and ate lunch.
Act three is pretty simple. Simple in the way that it's small, I don't have a million little things going on, I just have one big thing going on. I like it that way. Act two was really exhausting!
When I started act two, when I moved to NYC or maybe it started when I started college, well I just had NO idea all the scenes that would take place.  And actually, I'm glad I didn't. Joys, friendships, and memories that I could have never guessed would be as beautiful as they were. Surprises that were beyond things I could have even imaged. Of course heartache I didn't know I could survive and lows that I never would have guessed I could overcome, but I did.
It's really a sense of excitement, the start of act three. I know this next stage will be full of joys, excitements, pains, adventures, and dreams, but the real bonus is that I get to do them all with a guy that I find to be a dream.
So today is Easter, the start of something beautiful. When my faith/religion was changed forever. That same guy, Jesus, who we are remembering today, is know to: "make beautiful things, in his time".
When I look at my life now, I realize, yep, He sure does. The very best things that have happened to me have not been in my timing, but they have always been right on, in a good way. I'm thankful today for timing that makes sense and beauty that comes when we have either given up or aren't really looking so hard anymore.
Happy Easter. Happy Spring. Happy new beginnings.