Happy Anniversary

Rene and I have now made it 6 years! It has been a hard couple of years but it felt REALLY nice to have an anniversary that matched those of our earlier years.


We sent Ruby to Kathleen's (her daycare provider) and went out to dinner at a luxerious restaurant called Blanca (a very Top Chef experience). We started the night with some cocktails and a horrible appetizer of "Yellowtail Two ways". I'm not kidding when I say that one of the ways smelled like a really bad fart - NOT an appetizing odor. Rene was a doll and ate all of the offensive smelling poached radishes immediately so we didn't have to smell it anymore. This was the ONLY bad part of the meal/experience. We then moved on to a can't-go-wrong of Oysters on the Half Shell. Then came the entrees...I had a corn crusted halibut on a bed of bacon risotto and Rene had bacon warpped scallops. They were both to die for but Rene's was slightly better :) Then, oh then, was dessert! A sampler of Meyer lemon Cheescake, warm Rocky Road chocolate cake w/ marshmallow cream, chocolate ice cream, and butterscotch pot-d-creme (pudding) w/ salted carmel on top. Dessert was absolutely hypnotic!

We then picked up our beautiful daughter, took her home, read her a story, and put her to bed. And for the first time she repeated back to me what I have said to her everynight of her life as I lay her to bed, "namaste". What a perfect evening!

Rene and I discussed the future and what we want for our relationship and our family. This time next year, we might even be talking about a sibling for Ruby. for now, we are just enjoying each other again...and leraning how to communicate with eachother in a more evolved way. And even though we both still get under eachother's skin from time to time, we really are in love again!

I love you Rene!

5 year anniversary

Yeah! I see the light at the end of the tunnel with this nursing strike! She actually took my breast twice this morning! I knew if I just had patience she would find her way back. The poor thing has just felt awful the past few days with these teeth coming in. She took a four hour nap yesterday and when she got up she had a pretty high fever. She ate a banana like it was THE most amazing thing EVER! The doctor ordered Tylenol & Pedialyte and by this morning she was back to normal. I'm assuming whatever tooth it was that was causing so much grief finally popped through - I wouldn't know since she won't let me in her mouth to check it out.

Today is my 5 year wedding anniversary with Rene. What a crazy, up-and-down 5 years it has been. Things are really good right here, right now. We are learning to take each other & this marriage one day at a time. The good days inspire us for more good days and the bad days give us something to learn from. In fact we got in a big fight yesterday morning and by 10:00am we had actually worked through it with a lot of learning on both our parts.

Last night Rene organized a babysitter and an evening out with a bunch of our friends at one of my favorite San Diego joints (The Turf Club). I got all dolled up and did my makeup & hair. I felt really sexy for the first time in LONG time. Rene was so cute on the way down there in the car. He was obviously really happy and chatty. I said something about it and he said, "Hell yeah I'm happy, I'm goin' out with my girl!!" It felt like we were on a real date. We even ended up at a karaoke bar and I got up and sung (well, I really doubt you can call it singing). We had a lot of fun!! It felt really good to be out and about. Although I was checking my phone for babysitter calls all night and I found myself constantly trying to talk about something other than Ruby.

Today the three of us going to the beach to celebrate our anniversary as a family. On our honeymoon in Tahiti we said that every five years we would go back. Well, here we are five years later and no Tahiti. But we do have a beautiful, perfect San Diego beach five minutes from our house. Not bad at all.