Two Years, though it seems like forever

Yesterday Raph and I celebrated out second anniversary. The "cotton" anniversary as it turns out. I told him, well i think that makes it my year! I tried to scan an old picture of us - one of my favorites- from our first trip across country, while we were at my sister's house. We look so young, even though it was only six years ago. Raph has long curly hair, and we both look tan and skinny, after our summer white-water rafting and eating tomato sandwiches. But alas, I couldn't get the scanner to work and all our old picture including our wedding photos are on the external hard drive and so I'm left with this shot of us under the moonlight on lava in Hawaii. It is, I admit, one of my favorites.



I did finally finish his quilt top, his anniversary gift. I actually finished two quilt tops yesterday. The one on the left is for Raph. The colors are kind of wild, but the fabrics were picked for meaningfulness - some rafts that I printed on hand-dyed fabric at the Guild, some ocean fabric, etc. THe other quilt is a baby quilt, that I'm going to quilt myself since it is small.


We celebrated by taking ourselves out to dinner last night. Unforunately our favorite Thai restaurant is under construction so we had expensive, sub-par Thai food. It was the company that mattered though. We bought Makili a banana at the health food store on the way, which made him very well-behaved, albeit messy, during dinner. And we spent half our dinner laughing at him, banana covering every inch of his face and his ever creative ways of getting to the banana all the way inside the peel. The restaurant compensated for their sub-par food by allowing us to leave a complete mess of bananas all over their tables.

Raph surprised me with some gardenias, my favorite flower. We have a joke because our first Valentines day, he bought me some daffodils that were pretty darn close to being dead. I cried about it and he said, "I bought them because they smelled good!" He told me he tried to find some dead flowers for me yesterday, but couldn't ad so opted for the gardenias. Whew. Oh the joys of sharing your anniversary with April Fool's Day.

I do truly feel lucky to share my life with Raph. He is so patient, and gentle, and genuinely good. He is the perfect calm for my storm, port for my bumpy seas. I tell him all the time, "We're lucky to have each other." And I mean it.