38

Today is our 38th wedding anniversary. We're celebrating it mellowly on a day about 30º cooler than it was when we were married. Breakfast in bed was followed by each doing our errands. We had lunch - tuna salad subs, chips, and cherry tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden - out on the deck. He gave me a beautiful purple vase filled with a variety of fragrant purple flowers, and I gave him a half gallon of his favorite rum. Tonight we'll used gift certificates given to us to go out to dinner at the Common Man restaurant, one of our favorites for celebrating birthdays and anniversaries. The atmosphere is country but classy and the food is always delicious there. We usually can't do this because our anniversary typically falls during cross country season, and once that officially begins, the practices and meetings take priority over our private life events like having dinner at a reasonable hour or going out to the movies, so I'm thrilled to have this time and my husband all to myself so we can look back on the crazy, funny, wild and meaningful stuff of our married life.