Five whole years! Five years since our lovely wedding day. The days between have been filled in ways beyond our imaginations . . . three pregnancies, but only two happy births. Much more materially than we need, and a burglary to remind us that it's not really ours. Dozens of road trips to NY, a few to West Virginia, family vacations in Florida, a week in California and three(!!!) trips to Europe! One Thanksgiving and one Christmas spent at our home on Cottage Lane because of babies being born, and those two holidays were two of my favorites of all time. Cuddles and kisses and lots of wrestling with our two energetic little girls, and many doctor's visits of varied urgency because we have one child with asthma, and, as we discovered in recent months, another child with a rare genetic condition!
How good our loving Father has been to us.
For posterity's sake, I'd like to share how we celebrated our fifth. :) We've always said, "when Jenni gets married, then we'll go to Ireland!" and she finally did meet her husband and got married just a few weeks ago! So, we spent two weeks on that beloved island celebrating with them and rekindling dear friendships, and since we were returning on July 23, we considered it sort of an anniversary trip, as well. Still, on our acutal anniversary on the 25th, our friend Becca sweetly offered to babysit for us at the last minute, so we enjoyed our happy tradition of dinner at Outback in my honeymoon dress. :) We ended up ordering a handsome print of an old engraving of Rome as a present to ourselves, and plan to get it framed and hang it in our dining room. And it seems like we just keep celebrating and celebrating, since we still haven't given each other our cards, and plan to this evening!
Really soon, I want to write the rest of this post . . . maybe tomorrow. :) Welcome back, blog!
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