A Four Year Wife

Four years ago I put on a white dress, changed my last name, and promised of forever.  To this day I still look back on that day and try to live it all over in slow motion. 

Since little Eden arrived, Matthew and I have spent a total maybe 3 hours alone together.  So we decided it was time for a date night.  Mamaw and Papaw Moody offered to take the girls and we graciously accepted without hesitation! :) (Thank you!) 

  After dropping off the girls, I let myself forget for the next 3 hours that I was a mom and really get back in  touch with being a wife to my husband.  We were both craving a juicy hamburger so we made our way to Chili's.  We sat the our table and we had our first conversation in weeks without someone crying, screaming, or pulling on our legs.  We ate our food and actually chewed it.  I couldn't believe how different food tastes when you actually take time to chew it and look at it.  It felt like our first date all over again. I smiled and found myself giggling like I did when I would really like the guy on a date.  My cheeks hurt. 

  We were then off to the mall for some his and her shopping.  At first I felt naked not carrying one baby on my hip and one tugging on my arm, but I soon got over that feeling.  :) I found some cute pants to fit my post pregnancy body and tried to embrace my new saggy belly, bottom body. 

Soon it was time to put my mommy hat back on and I was ready for what the night might bring with our little girls because I had a date with their daddy, my husband.  We made it past the newly wed stage and moved on to the, "I hate it when you do that, but I never could tell you until now stage." and we are still married. :) So we must have done something right.  We made it through fixing up two houses, me being pregnant two times (hormones make you do crazy things), and raising two of the most perfect girls.  I think we have a lot more to look forward to, but it is just as great to look back to that St. Patrick's day 6 years ago when I wrote my number on a napkin and gave to guy wearing a green four leaf clover t-shirt thinking...I just found my pot of gold.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!