My Sweet Bride

In a strange twist of the calendar today is both my 5th anniversary and Fathers Day - just as was the day we married.  Today, instead of asking my still slightly skeptical father-in-law to give away his baby girl as a Father's Day gift, we will spend the day busily taking care of a child of our own as well as the 90 Ukrainian kids who we've temporarily adopted for the next 10 days.  It's not exactly the height of romance but in a way it's a more fitting tribute to a relationship than to spend stupid amounts of money on a tasty but too-small meal at the place we were married (that was our first anniversary, I believe).

Someday when we look back on our long life together I suspect that we will be very proud that in 3 of our first 5 years of marriage, we celebrated June 15th SERVING together rather than being served together.  I can think of no more attractive image than seeing my wife unselfishly and gladly lavishing love on our boy and a pile of other kids on the day that all of society says she should expect lavish gifts.

Sarry, thank you for having me and for continuing to be the girl of my dreams.  Happy Anniversary!

Just so all of you know, in the 2 weeks following this camp we will have time to get away and spend some special time together celebrating our 5 year and 3 week anniversary.