I have been watching your gum line drop for about a year.
We finally got to the bottom of it…a muscle.
A little muscle was pulling it down and that muscle had to be clipped.
You were such a champ.
Not a bit nervous.
Not a single complaint.
Just cool as a cucumber.
I love you too much!
This feeling with you is luxurious.
Simply elegant love.
A richness found by living soaked in joy.
You lavish me with lovable moments.
In the laughter we share over things like a Pokemon character or while practicing our dance moves.
In the sweet touch of your foot searching out mine while propped on the ottoman.
In the gentle coaching you offer while taking over my mouse in a computer game to help me out.
Your life, a treasure chest of sparkling gem-filled days
Our home…a paradise.
I love you too much!
So Hurricane Matthew is coming our way.
Schools close and we wait.
Looks like a category 1 for us.
We have had them before. We are not worried.
Late Friday we board up the windows. Simply because the boards lay in the warehouse (never used) and we have time and nothing else to do.
It starts. Rain and wind.
Makes it hard for me to sleep. I hear the metal boards rattling. The howling wind whipping around the backyard. My phone goes off all night long with warnings about a hurricane and evacuations and tornadoes and flooding. I am awake. You sleep like a champ.
This goes on into the morning and throughout the day. We hunker down in the office.
We get a little break and venture out to see what the world looks like. We think the worst is over.
Then it happens.
The winds pick up.
And up!
Then everything falls apart.
Trees start bending and breaking.
Everything is blowing down the street.
The power goes out. Everywhere.
We ride out to take Grammy and Poppy candles.
It is cool…
until the sun sets.
Then we can not see a single thing. Like being blind with your eyes wide open.
We can not walk around for tripping and simply can not see one another.
We hear people outside yelling, but we do not know who or where they are.
We ride out to check on Greg.
It is spooooky out. We can not see a single building along Hwy 17 and the roads are covered with tree branches, but we can not see them until we are right on them. So we creep along real slow and you just want to go home.
We have our home.
(Nope)
(This is how you do it. This is how you do it, baby.)
We are safe.
We are together.
It’s all good.
Day 2: Progress!
Day 3: Done!
Back to normal…
I love you toooo much!
Hurricane Hermine
In between downpours…
I love you too much!
You know what breaks my heart and tears me up inside?
When you are sick.
I can not stand it. Not one bit. I would rather it be me…every single time.
You are pitiful.
The good news is you usually sleep right through it.
No matter where you are. 🙁
I love you too much!
Virginia road trip
Swim, climb, eat, train, chase, movie
Whew…what fun we had.
It’s been real.
I love you too much!
We walked to the table to play a round of Connect 4 and in the middle of it you saw the fresh cut flowers from our yard.
It went a little something like this…
You: Oh nice!! Are we gonna keep it like this?
Me: Well, I just cut those from our hydrangea bush. I thought they were pretty.
You: Ok. I will put this in my memories from when I was 7.
I love you too much!
This life of ours
This juicy, succulent life of ours
I could just eat it up
Savoring every second
Where once I was bruised and battered
now I am blooming soft and tender
This luscious life
Ripe with love
Squishy from all this goodness
Pouring buckets of joy
This luscious life washing over me
Gushing from all of my pores
Dripping with happiness
Quenching my soul
Mmmmm.
This luscious, scrumptious life of ours.
I love you too much!
It is hard to think of a time when we are not laughing.
You wake with a smile and my heart fills with love and light.
All day long we find joy.
Eating marshmallows on the golf cart…
Your light shines.
Sitting in Daddy’s office waiting for the rain to stop…
Your light shines.
Your light shines bright into my days.
Your light shines beauty into my world.
Your light shines love into my life.
I love you too much!
We took a walk today.
A beautiful day for finding Pokemons. 🙂
We looked around the corner.
Down the boulevard.
Back home in the yard.
You found Evee right beside me!
Score.
I love walks with you.
I love you too much!