7th Anniversary

Dec 6 was the 7th year anniversary of our wedding in Hawaii. We had both completely forgotten about it. I was cleaning out Terran's closet to make space for our baby due in January. I was going through Pat's old race T-shirts. Those shirts are really annoying. He probably has 20-30 of them. They take up most of the space in his dresser, And he doesn't like to throw them away. He wears some over and over again. After awhile, he decides to ignore them and they get stuck in the back of a closet - worn and faded. When I tell him that I am getting rid of them, he freaks out and desperately stops me. This time, I told him that we can't keep so many of his nasty shirts and we needed to make space for the baby. So he let me throw out some. As I was going through the old T-shirt stash, I came across the yellow tank top he wore during the Honolulu marathon 7 years ago. He ran with the AIDS marathon team and they require the runners to write their name on the front of the shirt so the cheerleaders can personalize the cheers by saying "Go Patrick Go!". And so Pat had his name on the front, and on the back, he wrote "Just married - December 6, 2002".

I saw that date and I said,
"Pat, look, today is our anniversary."
To which he said
"really?"
And to which Terran asked,
"What's anniversary"
And I said
"That's when Dada and I got married."
And Terran responded,
"Oh, I remember that!"

Then we celebrated the rest of the afternoon by remembering the days we spent in Honolulu, just the 2 of us.
And now, 7 years later, here we are. We will soon be the 5 of us. There's not a quiet moment, not really a time to fully relax. But definitely so much more....