Entry FeedHusband and I will be celebrating our Tenth Wedding Anniversary this June.
Back when we were young, naive and childless, and romantically wandering around on our honeymoon, we said that we would go to Italy for our 10th Anniversary.
I never actually believed it would happen once our lives became full of family and commitments, but we just returned Sunday.
Italy was AMAZING! We flew into Venice, which I LOVED, then took the train to Rome, then to Sorrento. Loved it!
And the sleep we had! 14 hours one night. Another night 12 hours and actually slept through the 11 am end of breakfast.
Husband and I were glued at the hip, and it was nice. We haven't spent this much time together since our honeymoon.
But it wasn't a "second honeymoon." You only get one honeymoon... luckily for us, ours was perfect. To us this was a trip that we wanted to take, that would have been too difficult to do with the kids.
But now we have returned, and I feel in a fog. My head is full of clouds, and the caffeine isn't clearing them. Weeks I planned and prepared for the trip. My mother, who moved in to take care of the kids, got a detailed itinerary of who goes where when and what they need. God Bless that woman, but when she asked it I would prioritize the events, I had to say, "just make it to what you can!" The kids made it to almost everything, and it was vomiting that kept them away. (NOTE: Murphy's Law - when you go away without your children, at least one of them will vomit.)
I should have planned out this week as well, because I seem to have lost my ability to think, and a 12 page itinerary would be really nice right about now.
We missed the kids, but after day two actually got passed talking about them every minute. Sure they missed us, but they were well taken care of.
Now, for our 15th... I think we are planning something with the entire family. Because after all, isn't that what a marriage really celebrates? The creation of a new family? Even it is always just a family of two... ours now five.
According to Husband, our next trip away without the kids will be our 25th anniversary. What a romantic!