A love letter to my Honey Bunny on our ninth anniversary

Dear David -

Yesterday marked nine years since our "wedding." I think it's fitting that we had both a legal marriage that was decidedly un-fancy in one of the fanciest wedding venues around and a fairy-tale fantasy wedding in what is basically my parents' backyard. It's kinda like our relationship: So special, but in the most normal, everyday way.

I love you for a lot of things, but I especially love you for the ways you make me feel special and loved every day. I love that you put up with my wild ideas and go along with my crazy plans, even when it's so not your thing.

 

I love that, regardless of where we are, when I'm with you I'm always home.

I love that you're not afraid to be silly with me, and you know how to make me laugh no matter what mood I'm in.

But more than anything, I love that you and I continually challenge, encourage and support each other. I wouldn't be half the mother, wife or content strategist I am if you didn't encourage me to do more, be better, live up to the vows I made nine years ago, and then support me unconditionally when I do. 

Now if I could only get the homemaker part down. ;)

In the past year, you've helped me learn that my love doesn't have limits; it grows exponentially. When I watch you and Harrison, I feel like I might burst from the joy.

I know now, for sure, that I picked the right person to be my partner in life. I know we said we waited to have a baby until we were super solid in our own relationship, but I have a feeling things would be just the same if we'd had a kid right away. Because I know without a shadow of a doubt that you are who I need by my side as I navigate through life.

Thank you for picking me. Thank you for recognizing the things in me I don't recognize in myself. Thank you for giving me an awesome second family that loves and accepts me without judgement or conditions. Thank you for being the most amazing father, partner, playmate, soulmate I could ever hope for. Thank you for sharing your life with me; I can't imagine my life without you in it.

Llama.