Sunday June 15, 2008
Happy Anniversary to us! We celebrated six years of fun, laughter, tears, work, play, friendship, and love yesterday. I can’t believe it’s been that long one minute and the next I think it feels as though we’ve been together forever. I love, love, love being married to David Lee. The other day my cousin asked me if I miss my old life and working the job I thrived on. And you know, two days postpartum and weak as jelly in my knees, I didn’t have the foggiest itch to trade roles.
The best part of being married, I think, is that it keeps getting better. Unlike about everything else in life that gets old and worn out and we get tired of it, love and relationships keep changing and being new and exciting even while they deepen and establish themselves. David Lee and I are what I call one of the “lucky” couples. While every relationship takes work, some couples need to work a lot harder then others. We have our moments (and hours and days, ahem); but for the most part, we just “fit.” Although, maybe that’s because he’s so easy to get along with. 
And truth be told, I think we did more “working through things” in the first six months then some couples get to in the first two years. I love a million things about him. Don’t worry. I won’t post them and make you groan, “Yuck, go get a Hallmark card.” Just one thing. I love the way he meets my moods……serious, talkative, playful, bored, bouncy, tired, workaholic, lazy, excited, joking, pregnant 
, silly, formal, ridiculous, exuberant, ….wherever I am, he meets me there. And while he doesn’t bounce as high as I do and he doesn’t get lazy like I do, he never tells me, “Oh, get over it.” That, I think, takes some serious kind of loving.
So here’s cheers to six years. I hope we get another six many times over.
We started celebrating Friday night actually since David Lee has to teach Sunday School and gets tied up with studying Saturday night. Adam went to Pa Beachy’s house and came home swaggering big because they had a youth work night there and he got to chop wood with the guys. On the way home he said, “mommy, let me tell you about it. I was cutting wood with a chain saw…”
“A chain saw????” I interrupted.
“Yeah. Well, mine was a screwdriver actually; but I called it my chain saw.”
Liam stayed with Ruth. I think the umbilical cord wasn’t quite so severed as I thought it was. He did fine. At least Ruth said he did. But I felt very far away and kept wondering if I sent along enough milk and if he had tummy ache and gave him a dozen extra kisses before I tucked him into bed that night.
Dining out…just the two of us, was delightful. We ate at Olivate, a new Italian restaurant in town with superb food, and lovely decor. Everything was perfect. Awesome bruschetta. Great salad. Even better garlic bread. And then ooey gooey cheese stuffed shells. Perfect that is, until we were 3/4 of the way through main course and another couple was ushered to the booth just behind us. The man was wearing an absolute cloud of cologne in a very similar scent to the one I gave David Lee just before I got pregnant. He wore it a lot the week we were at Folly Beach which was also the week I got sick. Suddenly wave after wave of nausea engulfed me. That was the end of the pasta and for awhile I was afraid I would revisit the part I’d already enjoyed. I thought it would surely pass. But it didn’t. We skipped dessert and got out as quickly as possible. “I think,” I said as we hit the road, “we want to wait a very long time before doing the pregnancy thing again.” It takes a few weeks of feeling good for me to realize just how sick I was. That night was a rather startling revelation. By the way, if anyone is interested in an almost full bottle of cologne, this one is heading out the door.
Happy happy happy anniversary to you and many more to come! To funny about the cologne, I finally threw a pair of shoes away because I gagged when ever I tried to put them on! 🙂
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! So happy for you guys.
That’s hilarious about the cologne… isn’t it weird the things pregnancy does to you?
Awww, this is a sweet post- very honoring to your husband. I thought I was the lucky one, but I guess there’s more lucky couples out there. “Lucky”- the word seems too cheap for what I’m trying to describe. I’m curious- what kind of cologne?
happy anniversary to you guys! kinda forgot you got married in june also. sweet post… have a great week !
Ditto Ditto, to you both!!:) 6 years? hmmmm makes 3 months seem really short:)
have a happy summer!!!
Here’s wishing you many more anniversarys! And thanks for trusting me with your precious little bundle! Rodger enjoyed it as much as I did I think. I was debating about taking a shower after Liam was fed but thought what if he starts fussing, but Rodger says go ahead I’ll take care of him 🙂
@Byersbunch – awwww, that is so sweet!
Amen and amen on marriage getting better! I think since Darrel and I started walking it’s almost gotten even better in some ways, too. (I know you’re probly laughing b/c you’re wondering HOW long is this going to last???) But I’m determined. Oh, I’m curious too, what kind of cologne? =) I do that w/ smells now sometimes, but what’s worse is this one cd that Darrel LOVED to listen to when I was pregnant w/ the boys and it was so melancholy that I would almost COMMAND him to turn it off b/c it made me cry every time and it still does of all things!!!
@letshavechai – acqua di gio
Happy anniversary! No, six years dosen’t seem long and my DH still didn’t have enough of each other!
I sympathize with you about the cologne. When I was still pg sick with Z, I would go out in the garden to pick tomatoes until I couldn’t take anymore. Months later, long after I felt good and it was winter, I went to dump ashes in the garden and suddenly realized I was feeling….nauseated! I couldn’t believe it!
Glad you had a happy anniversary. I liked your phrase about how he meets your moods. That’s something i’m always so amazed with Evangel too because I’m much more over the top kind of person then he is. So glad God knew exactly who that person was we needed in our lives.
Happy anniversary! Maybe you have no problem comprehending that 6 years have gone by, but I do. I feel a little old.
Where are you going this weekend? And when will you be back? Maybe you’ll have to come over sometime soon before I turn into a hermit. Do I need to say anything more than “we are in the middle of building a house?”
Have fun!
no, we’re coming NEXT weekend, the 27th. Gonna be home? i gotta see the lil’ fella!!:)
Happy Anniversary. I can’t believe I’ve gotten so disconnected I forgot it. 🙁 I’m having memories of the first year…and our emails. 🙂 Somehow anniversaries always take me back there.
Would I lik the cologne?
@twofus_1 – I doubt it. you were w/ me when I bought it and said it smells like D Lee but not like Steve