is a single mama in the city, super-savvy editor, writer, video host and shameless shoe whore.
Happy Anniversary to us
Friday, October 12, 2007 We've now been married five years, together for ten. We have one boy, age three. We've lived in three apartments and two cities together. We drove one truck, pulled one car and carried two plants 2,138 miles cross-country. We broke down three times along the way. But we made it through and fell into rush hour traffic on the Kennedy Expressway, where my dad pulled up next to us on his way home from work, yelling at us to get our rig off the road and welcoming us to our new home. We lived with my parents (in separate bedrooms) for two months before we got our own place and really settled in.
We now have three stacks of plastic storage tubs full of baby and maternity clothes in our basement that reach the ceiling. We have six jobs and probably a hundred pairs of shoes between us. We've lost and gained and lost again many, many pounds, shed countless tears and laughed so hard so often that it is one thing I am sure is immeasurable. We've sat together in too many uncomfortable hospital chairs. We've ridden thigh to thigh in more side-by-side airplane seats.
We have ten unopened china settings in our pantry and they are lovely and beautiful and perfectly fragile.
We chose a date because the number seemed to have a pleasing congruity, 10.12.02. We stood, five years ago, on an altar with our minister and seven attendants, 180 guests and a harpist and all I saw was this man.
Today, the numbers are insignificant. It is the bliss I want to hold on to.
Happy Anniversary to my partner in crime.
[photo credit: Jessica Ashley]
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Happy Anniversary!