Anniversary Love

This husband of mine, I love him with my entire heart, my whole being.  This has been my best year yet.  I am so very proud of him and of us and of how far we have come in life and how beautiful our life is.

He does things for me that do not go unnoticed or forgotten, and they really make me so happy inside.  For instance, he doesn't like cards.  He thinks they're a waste of money, and I might agree, but sometimes I still think they're nice, and some of them do a really great job saying what you want to say.  So on my birthday last year, he got me a card because it was a "wife" birthday card and he knew I would love to get a wife birthday card from my husband on the very first birthday I was ever a wife!  I will forever cherish that card. 

And he picks me flowers.  Enough said.

The last song we danced to on the night of our wedding was This Year's Love by David Gray.  It's the song we danced to many times in our kitchen.  It's a song he learned to play for me on the guitar.  To me, this is our song.

This years love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
And I've been waiting on my own too long
But when you hold me like you do
It feels so right
I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Feeling like you can't go on

Turning circles when time again
It cuts like a knife oh yeah
If you love me got to know for sure
'Cause it takes something more this time
Than sweet, sweet lies
Before I open up my arms and fall
Losing all control
Every dream inside my soul
And when you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This years love had better last

So whose to worry
If our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Don't you know this life goes on
And won't you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This years love had better last

This year's love has been nothing short of amazing.  Throughout our years of dating and learning about one another and growing our love, I didn't think I could be happier.  Until I married him.  When I became his wife, and he my husband, that love grew so much deeper, stronger, and more beautiful.  Without a doubt, God sent Keane to me, and me to him.  He completes me in all the ways I was missing something.

Our 1st Anniversary may have been a little downplayed, since our baby girl had been due two days prior, and arrived two weeks prior.  We had all three kids on our anniversary and it was an ordinary day.  I did sip on a beer (my first in how long??) with him, and after the big kids were tucked into bed, and while our newborn fussed in the baby swing in the living room, the two of us were found in our dim romantic kitchen with our cake cutting and serving utensils from our wedding, the top of our wedding cake, and our flute glasses with wine.  We fed each other a bite sweetly like we did 365 days before of very delicious year-old white wedding cake, and interlocked arms to have a sip of red wine.  We may have done this rather quickly, and in our pajamas, and very soon after we hushed baby Farrah and made our way to bed, but it in and of itself, was a perfect 1st anniversary.  I mean, how could it get much sweeter? 

(Although Keane told me much after that day that had I not been pregnant, he was planning on taking me on a cruise for our anniversary since we never had a honeymoon - that would have been pretty damn sweet too -- maybe in a few years?!)

Happy First Anniversary, Love.