Happy birthday, R!! This has been an amazing past year. We became parents for the first time 8 days before your last birthday, and things have only gotten better since. Watching you with D fills my heart so much it practically explodes. You are, without a doubt, the most wonderful father she could ever have gotten.
And you’ve been my best friend for a decade now. A decade? Seriously?? Wow. I am so lucky. Truly. And I can’t wait for decade upon decade upon decades more with you.
To the man who refused to listen to Kid Rock’s “All Summer Long” (one of my faves!) until he heard the line “We were smoking funny things,” I love you.
p.s. sorry to make you share your post, r, but i want to jot down my run stats from last night so i don’t forget them. i ran 3.66 miles in 32:49, for a 8:57 pace. it was the first run during which i had to stop, due to a stitch in my side that turned into a scalpel when i could neither breathe nor stretch nor massage it out. so as much as i hated to i took about a minute to try to get rid of the pain, failed to do so, then just started up again. it finally subsided after about the first mile. then at one point i thought i was going to poop my pants, but fortunately that didn’t occur. it did feel good to get the legs pumping again.
R looks like your daughter here with his tongue out.
Haha – he does!