... was on the 12th, but ask my husband and he swears it was today. But I forgive him, the poor guy has a million things going on in his mind. To be perfectly honest with you, I can't believe myself just how long we've been together. I can't believe we've been together for almost 8 years, and married for 5. I guess the say is true, time does fly when you're having fun.
... in the past 5 years of marriage, we've endured together more than any other couple has in a life time of days. Through every obstacle and tribulation, it has been easier so long as I had his arm to hold onto when I had gotten frightened or scared. It was much more fun to enjoy ever blessing we've been given, with him right beside me to high five!
--- in the past 5 years, I can recall every bad moment we've had together, but have chosen to frolic in the absolute happy moments of our lives together. I can be sad later, but for now I choose to be happy.
... in the past 5 years, every day has been a gift that I've been blessed with. To have a man I can call my true best friend, my confident, my provider, my love, my life. What more could a girl truly ask for?
On the day of our anniversary, I expected nothing, because I was blessed with everything. So what? He thought our anniversary was a week later... the joy is knowing that he knew it was in June.
We had planned nothing that day, just to be together and to be with our wonderful children. Once they fell asleep, we had a genius idea to go to the movies but catch dinner first. We both craved sushi, but by the time the children were tucked soundly into bed, it was 10:30 p.m. and there was no way on God's green earth that there would anything open in the town that we lived in, so we opted to head to the movie theater and watch a movie we both craved as well. To our disappointment, when we got there the crowds were huge, and we could find no rhyme or reason to stand in line for half an hour only to be disappointed with seats that would leave us in agonizing neck pain. So we decided to head out and go search for a place to eat.
Before we knew it, we were on the freeway, headed over back to the valley to patrol through the streets of Ventura Blvd. for a non gaudy looking late night sushi place, but to our disarray we found nothing. We decided to keep driving and somewhere between today and Universal Studios, Ventura Blvd. turned into Cuhenga Blvd. and there we were. In uncharted territory with our old asses cruising down Sunset Blvd.
We looked at each other and said, "what the hell are we doing here on a Friday night?" It was then that we both knew that we were far over our prime, that our days of clubbing and late night bar hopping was over. We actually stared at the young twenty something year old girls in their obviously not so comfortable clothing, screaming in drunkness through their cellphones, running across streets holding onto each other's frail arms - and actually felt annoyed. We had become those old couples that were actually annoyed.
Eventually we found ourselves at a decent late night Sushi restaurant, called Sushi Dan.
We arrived around midnight, and by this time we were starving. But our eyes were hungrier than our tummy's. Big mistake to order so late at night.
As we waited for our dinner/breakfast. We talked about shows we watched during late nights. We've grown sickenly addicted to the History Channel. We started to talk about politics and the end of the world. Not so romantic topics, but they were topics that kept us intrigued.
There's something about being on a date with your husband and not feeling any pressure at all to think of something witty to entertain each other with.
We ended up going home with 4 take home boxes, filled with the sushi that we could not finish, but swore that we would eat it when we got home. It was 2 am by the time we got home. And we were so exhausted.
It may seem like an ordinary night to any other person, but that night, we celebrated 5 years of marital most of the time bliss.
It was perfect.
It was romantic.
It was time for us to celebrate each other.
Congrats!
I wish you both many more years of blessings!
Posted by: dulce | June 29, 2009 at 03:19 PM