Has It Been Ten Years Already? {Real Life Wednesday}

It's our ten-year anniversary this Sunday for me and my hubby! Thanks for your applause! Really, thank you. Oh, you are too kind. You can stop clapping now.

No, we are not going to Hawaii. Yeah, no, we are not taking a cruise. Um, nope, no party-at-our-house.

If you guessed a hot tub and dinner out (sans our monkey boy JJ, who is eight years old) you are correct!

My monkey-boy JJ and his new kitten, Bad-Ass, I mean Neo.

But what if I told you that we do the exact same thing for our date-nights, birthdays, and just because it's been a while... Would you be surprised?

What do married couples do on their tenth-year anniversary? My best friend in Ohio went on a cruise! Another family friend threw a big party....

But that was before the recession (and the resulting popularity of a stay-cation).

Our country is still at war. We have a big election coming up, probably the biggest in my life time.

Sadly, in our support group, we lost a lovely little boy with Down syndrome, named Daniel, to Cancer.

I could go on.

My son monkey-boy JJ and handsome hubby at a family group camp.

We are not disappointed at our hot-tub-dinner plans, far from it, we are somewhat relieved! (OK, very relieved.) We get a night out, just the two of us, some hot tub action (I'm talking bubbles), and a candle-light dinner at a great, family owned Italian restaurant.

We are not rich. We are not famous. (OK, I'll be a famous writer some day).

We are happy. We are blessed.

It's called real life.

And there's always our fifteenth anniversary to look forward to!

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