A full year of this blog.....

My goal was really to not post while I was home. However, being home for two weeks and with your birthday coming up I felt like I should add something to remind you how much I love you. I'll try to keep it simple and brief, but as you know I am quite the "rambler".

I can't believe it has been a year since I started this blog. By my count there are 51 posts since I started. This makes 52. At first I wasn't sure how you would take to this or whether it would work as a gift. However, I think over the past year it has really been everything I hoped it would be for you. Frankly, I still get excited when i know you are reading what I posted the night before. I hope you look forward to them as well.

So now you are about to turn 39. I want you to know honestly that you seem so much younger than 39. Not only in your near child-like approach to life, but in the way you seem to connect with your much younger daughters. It really speaks to the "you are only as old as you behave" mentality. While you behave with maturity you do it with an energy that really attracts people to you. So if you want to call the birthday "21 R" you can without anyone questioning whether it applies. Although, you may opt to go with "25 N" so that the girls births are firmly behind you in your "repetitive" birthday counts.

So this year we don't have a big trip planned for your birthday. No San Antonio or Kohler. I am truly sorry about that. There is not extravagant gift planned that you know about. I know you jokingly made some reference to some gifts you wanted (or "re-gifts" as you stated them), but that really isn't fair. We will have our family back together this weekend and you get another full week (just confirmed I am home all week) of me! You can un-wrap me if you would like.

So now I will get on to the more serious nature of my post. I will call it "sleeping wife".

I just left our bedroom. It is about 8:30 or so and you have fallen back asleep. God you are beautiful. No one sleeps with such peace. No one looks more comfortable and safe when they sleep like you do. I stood there for about 5 minutes watching you. You had that "smile" on your face. It is amazing. You look so warm cuddled in all those blankets.

I bent over to kiss you and I could sense how sweet you smell. You still smell like pancakes. It is wonderful. Your face was warm, but not hot. When I kissed you tweaked your smile just a bit as if you knew I was doing it. After all these years, I could still watch you sleep anytime. You are at your most beautiful when you are asleep in a comfortable bed. Thank you.

Well that is about it my love for this last post before your birthday. I love you so much. I hope after a full year of this you still want me to continue and still appreciate this blog. I think it has been a nice gift and will keep giving forever. Happy Birthday.

You are the angel of my life. I love you.