Two days ago we celebrated our eleventh year of marriage. Just last year we had a big tenth vow renewal ceremony in a sweet little church with our children and our close family all around us. Perhaps it has kicked something off in our lives? Before last years anniversary Garnet and I usually found our anniversary a very uneventful day, due to being in the thick of the baby and toddler years. I feel like we have shook off those years with last years celebration. I was finally able to see the good side to baby years being memories and started to get excited about all the freedoms coming our way, as we let our children grow and teach them to be more independent of us.
This year, so many loved ones wished us well and encouraged us to really celebrate again. We where approached by many willing babysitters and a day of childless fun came together. We dined for breakfast, as that is our favorite meal, shopped where we can never normally go with four kids in tow (second hand book stores, hat stores, stores full of exotic breakable items) and then we gardened together. We talked, we fussed over one another and we felt so blessed to know our kids where happy and fine without us… thus we really relaxed and enjoyed the quiet, with only one anothers attention and touch.
When my beautiful babies are babies no longer, far from my mothering reach, working on their own paths and life stories, I will have my husband still. I will hold to him, look at him, fuss over him with a bursting heart. It is a blessing to look into your mans eyes and still see your beau. He makes it easy for me; he hasn’t lost his sense of humor through all our hard times, he hasn’t lost that golden smile through the sad times and he hasn’t lost his love for me through my unlovable times.
I love you Garnet!
TTFN
