Happy Anniversary Baby, Got You On My Miiiiind

Okay, so it is not a great song. But it was the first one I could think of with the word anniversary in it. Yes, my seventies music vocabulary is vast, maybe too much so. The one that is especially fitting is the one that goes "You're still the one who can scratch my itch, still the one dah dah dah We're still having fun and You're still the one." I do not know who it is by. But it was a 70's song. There was one anniversary year that we heard that playing on the radio as we sat at a red light at Indianola and N. Broadway and we were like "Yeah, this is it! This is for us." I think it might be Doobie Brothers but I am not sure. Karen can you help me out? Maybe I'll hear it today. I'll put that out there and see what comes back.

So, ten years.

Ten years of...

Taking long walks, having long talks
Eating munchies and Dairy Queen trips
Rainy days and watching movies
Reading to each other and listening
Sharing creativity
Caresses and toe touching
Kisses both long and passionate as well as short and friendly
Helping each other find our way when we have lost it
Loving each other when we are snotty, smelly, raggedy, real
Dreaming together
Honoring the people we are and supporting who we want to become
Planning, working and sweating side by side
Ten years of marriage to my best friend

To celebrate...I am not sure as we are both feeling kind of lousy with this awful cold. So we'll see. It may end up being a movie at home, more of that toe touching, take out food and snuggling.

On the one hand it feels like maybe we should do something extreme. It is 10 years! That is a milestone. I mean, I don't want the day to go by without acknowledging that it is a special day. But on the other hand, I feel like we should revel in the small wonders of what our lives are like together everyday that we are together. This is where the blessings are. These are the gifts of everyday. There is no other gift than just US. So, going for a walk, being with our children, eating chips, snuggling up for a movie and toe touching just feels right today and everyday. To be fully present...aware...grateful. Sigh.