Daily Diary – May 25 2010

Flowers from the love of my life. They didn’t bloom yet but I wanted to capture them anyway. Tulips of all colors. Makes my heart swoon.

Today is my eighth wedding anniversary with my husband. We’ve been together sixteen years and married eight. We had a lot of different ideas on how to celebrate today but finally settled on going to the California Academy of Sciences as a family. At this stage of our lives, I cannot imagine having had a better way to honor our marriage than a day as a whole family, loving each other and having fun together. (We will go out to a fancy dinner, too, I promise, Mom, on our next date night. But we didn’t want to drag the kids to a nice restaurant. We wanted it to be fun for all of us.)

So we drove to the city and we first went into the rain forest. I even put shoes on Nathaniel in case he wanted to walk. (He didn’t all that much and he wasn’t a fan of the shoes so I took them off pretty soon after this. And his pants are all bunched up cause Jake was carrying him most of the time up till then.)

David loved the rainforest, seeing all the frogs and the lizards and the butterflies. And he liked being able to hug Nathaniel too since Daddy had put him down.

Here’s a green basilisk lizard for you.

And a frog.

We then went to the aquarium where I asked Jake to get some shots of me with the kids. I promised myself I would do that more. Even though the kids don’t seem to care much. That’s ok.

Here’s David showing Jake some fish that he saw. They had a lot of fun looking at everything.

We then took a break for some food since I knew Nathaniel was starving. And he was, poor guy, he devoured everything I gave him.

After “lunch” we went to see the penguins. Because there was no way I wasn’t seeing the penguins.

Some more food, a bunch of games, some more sightseeing and it was time to come home. David fell asleep on the way home but not the little one. He really does not like to nap in the car. I came home to the beautiful tulips and fed the kids, put them down and here we are. About to watch Glee. A wonderful ending to an incredible day.

And, of course, here’s the love of my life.

The father of my children, the owner of my heart, soul and my best friend in the whole wide world. I love you madly, deeply, and with every single part of my being my amazing husband. Thank you for choosing me. Thank you.

Note to Self:
Early in the day I watched Brene Brown’s Up Talk. Brene is an expert on on shame and shame resilience and I cannot recommend this movie enough. It’s profound. It’s really worth your time. I will likely watch it a few more times. I hope you take the time to watch it, too.

Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. My husband. My wonderful, amazing, patient, kind, funny, truly awesome husband.
2. Our full and fantastic day.
3. My family who remembered our special day and called us to congratulate us. I thought of my grandmother again today; she would have definitely called me. I love you Omama.

Two Things David’s Grateful For:
1. Our trip to the California Academy of Sciences
2. Getting to play video games at the academy of sciences.