josh & i don't usually celebrate valentine's day. before josh, i remember spending many valentine's day dinners out with my parents (dad would take out me & my mom, his two ladies), or my brother (when i was in college, and he lived nearby in muncie). josh & i are a rare couple in the fact that we get to spend so much time together--we sometimes forget about going on dates! of course, since having heron, we've desperately needed to go out on dates to have some baby-free time. but i can count on one hand the number of dates we've had in the past 8 months! i think we've been out to dinner in waxhaw, 10 minutes away, two times!so... i think this year valentine's day just happened to be a coincidence, or an excuse. and it was the best valentine's day EVER!
mom offered to watch heron along with our friends linda and mary (these were my "aunts" growing up in peru, and they've been dear friends to my mom since my dad's death. they also LOVE spending time with heron). in order to maximize the THREE WHOLE HOURS that we intended to spend away from the babe, we decided to dine in, skip the commute. so we prepared a scrumptious meal for five here, and josh & i dished out our plates & dined in his studio. awaiting us was our old dining room table which josh had muscled up the stairs alone, placed by the window, with candles and flowers. a slide show of our past 3 years, and of course a music mix for the occasion.
the menu:
apple stuffed pork loin (drew billups' recipe)
alli's thanksgiving sweet potatoes with walnuts
rice pilaf
linda & mary's green beans with feta
it was a perfect evening, and i laughed & cried (with joy) harder than i have in a long time. we need dates every once in awhile. i love being married to josh, my best friend. oh goodness, we have a good life!
5 comments:
blessings to your little family! i love reading your updates. it is so good to hear of the joy that our Papa has brought to you, josh and heron.
soundly lovely and brilliant. miss ya'll.
This post brought tears to my eyes! I'm so thankful for your time with Josh - and how cool that you had a slideshow & mix CD! Your love & marriage is so beautiful and inspiring. Love you both dearLy, beCcA
cute cute cute. you guys are absolutely adorable and doing it all right imo.
I can relate to being together often, but forgetting (and yet needing) dates. Jason's firefighter schedule takes him away from home for significant chunks of time, but allows for significant time at home as well. But with the chaos of raising children we have to guard our couple time jealously. i'm trying to make sure we get out together at least twice a month. It's a challenge isn't it!
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