10 years

Yesterday was our 10 year anniversary! I remember when my oldest brother had his 10 year anniversary. I thought that was so old. Thank goodness I'm not old like he was! Not that a time factor really matters, but there is nothing more I want in my life than to have Nate in it, and to be so lucky as to spend the last 10 years with him makes me feel really, really blessed.

Next weekend we're going to celebrate by taking a weekend to ourselves and leaving the girls with a friend. We can't wait. I got Nate tickets to Jim Gaffigan, a comedian he really likes, and besides that I don't care if we do nothing at all. Yesterday it was nice to glow in the realization that we've been married for that amount of time, but then come evening time the girls were all complaining in the "she's touching me!!" fashion, and we wondered why we did this in the first place. But then after they were in bed we were able to take a quiet walk along the beach with a blanket of stars above and the moon shining on the ocean and it all felt right.

I thought that would be enough, that being married for 10 years would feel just as good as I'd want to feel. But then I woke up this morning with the thought, "Wow, now we've been married for more than 10 years!" And I've been grinning all day.