Today is my Birthiversary and I’ve had a wonderful day – capped off by dinner at Ocean Zen with Burl. When he asked what I wanted for my birthday, I told him that hardwood floors in the living room, dining room and hall would be perfect and would exempt him from ever giving me another gift. Not that he had to take me up on that offer but I did mean it! However, being the wonderful guy that he is, he also gave me some new golf shoes with the insinuation that I will wear them to play golf with him!
For my anniversary gift he added a diamond to the necklace he gave me as a wedding gift so now I have 8 diamonds in it – one for our wedding and one for each year of our marriage. Pretty special, huh? He got a nifty automatic hammer from Home Depot which is on back order and which I may cancel because he has something similar that he doesn’t use – but there are some other goodies he’s been wanting so we’ll shop for those.
One of the best gifts I received came from daughter Tammy via her blog – she wrote a very special post to me today and it means so much to me to hear her beautiful thoughts. I’d tell her that it made me teary but then she’d accuse me of being too sappy and sentimental so let’s don’t tell her that it really got to me!
Tonight at dinner we started talking about doing something special for our 10th anniversary and I wasn’t surprised when Burl immediately suggested what I was thinking – we need to spend it in Paris and have dinner at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Sounds like a plan to me. I’ve been to Paris twice and each time I visited the Eiffel Tower but I’ve never been there with Burl so it’s now part of our agenda. By then we should be finished with all our projects!
Right now we should be experiencing the famous 7 Year Itch but the only itch I have is the one to redecorate our home and I’m making great progress on that. Since the first of the year we’ve turned a bedroom into my sewing/craft room, completely made over the main bathroom and now we’re halfway through the hardwood flooring project. Little does he know what awaits him when we return from a winter in Phoenix.
I’m not telling – let’s make it a surprise!
