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My Love.

mommyeverafter — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:45:05 +0000

Long ago, we wrote love notes. We wrote each other poems, left little hearts around, exchanged cards and poems.
Now, our love is much deeper.
We have been through the worst together, and I don’t say it enough.
I am so lucky to have a husband who brings home “just because” flowers to me.
That is nice. But that’s not really why I’m lucky.

I’m lucky because I get texts like this:
When skies are gray, both literally and proverbially.
I am lucky that we can go away together for a few short days, and ride our bikes into town for homemade ice cream, and oysters, and cocktails (not in that order) and ride home, chilled, and share a glowing fire and a bubbling jacuzzi, all while singing “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” at the top of our lungs.
I’m lucky that I go to bed each night knowing that the person next to me has my back. That every time I look over at him I feel like I must have done something right in this world.
That the man whom I met when I was twenty loves me more now than he did then, even though he loved me instantly.
He is the best person I know. So good. So true. So honorable and kind and brave.
He is right; he is my rock. And I am so lucky.
I am writing this with tears streaming down my face.
I married the kindest, most loving soul.
How did I ever get so lucky?
I will never know.
But I will enjoy every second of it
for as long as we both shall live.

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Oh, and by the way…

mommyeverafter — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:05:19 +0000

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I have to say,

mommyeverafter — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:18:11 +0000

that although I am in a land far, far away,
where my internet connection is limited to 36 seconds a day,
and my phone has not worked since Sunday,
and where the rum drinks flow like….
….you know….
I feel compelled to take the last 22 seconds of signal I have
to say
that at this moment,
for me,
happiness is
spending more hours in the ocean than on land,
sitting on a tall bar stool and sharing a virgin pina colada with my kid,
the smell of sun tan lotion and coconuts
and the taste of freshly caught fish
and sitting, huddled up, in a hot tub with 6 of the people I love the most in the world,
and mango beer at 3 in the afternoon
and watching my baby dance on a table
and chasing iguanas
and sleeping in the bed in which I got engaged
and having all family, all the time
and spicy food
and steel drums
and stolen kisses
and stories and memories that will keep me warm for many moments to come.
I don’t want this week to end.
Time, slow down, please,
for this is my happy place.
Happiness is here.
Here is love.

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mommyeverafter — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:57:40 +0000

june 2009

I am covered in sunscreen, lying on the sand on Ka’anapali Beach in Maui.

june 2010

I am covered in spit-up, lying on the floor of my daughter’s bedroom for “Tummy Time”

Isn’t there some expression about a year making a whole hell of a difference?

Still, I wouldn’t trade June 2010 for anything.

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mommyeverafter — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:57:40 +0000

june 2009

I am covered in sunscreen, lying on the sand on Ka’anapali Beach in Maui.

june 2010

I am covered in spit-up, lying on the floor of my daughter’s bedroom for “Tummy Time”

Isn’t there some expression about a year making a whole hell of a difference?

Still, I wouldn’t trade June 2010 for anything.

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mommyeverafter — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:57:40 +0000

june 2009

I am covered in sunscreen, lying on the sand on Ka’anapali Beach in Maui.

june 2010

I am covered in spit-up, lying on the floor of my daughter’s bedroom for “Tummy Time”

Isn’t there some expression about a year making a whole hell of a difference?

Still, I wouldn’t trade June 2010 for anything.

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mommyeverafter — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:57:40 +0000

june 2009
I am covered in sunscreen, lying on the sand on Ka’anapali Beach in Maui.
june 2010
I am covered in spit-up, lying on the floor of my daughter’s bedroom for “Tummy Time”

Isn’t there some expression about a year making a whole hell of a difference?

Still, I wouldn’t trade June 2010 for anything.

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mommyeverafter — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:57:40 +0000

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mommyeverafter — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:57:40 +0000

june 2009

I am covered in sunscreen, lying on the sand on Ka’anapali Beach in Maui.

june 2010

I am covered in spit-up, lying on the floor of my daughter’s bedroom for “Tummy Time”

Isn’t there some expression about a year making a whole hell of a difference?

Still, I wouldn’t trade June 2010 for anything.

The post appeared first on Mommy Ever After.

mommyeverafter — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:57:40 +0000

june 2009

I am covered in sunscreen, lying on the sand on Ka’anapali Beach in Maui.

june 2010

I am covered in spit-up, lying on the floor of my daughter’s bedroom for “Tummy Time”

Isn’t there some expression about a year making a whole hell of a difference?

Still, I wouldn’t trade June 2010 for anything.

The post appeared first on Mommy Ever After.