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3,331 Days Later

It's been 3,331 days since my husband and I united in vows of love and commitment among our closest family and friends in Austin, Texas.  That was a perfect day on May 13, 2006 and today is another perfect day, June 26, 2015 - the day the Supreme Court of the United States of America strikes down bans on same-sex marriage.

I love the U.S.A.  More post will follow on this blog, but for now I want to exhale and enjoy this moment.

Justice Kennedy said it nicely:


"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."

Father's Day Is One Year Away?

Sunday was Father's Day, and all day I kept thinking: I really hope next year we're celebrating this day as two fathers.  After spending 34 Father's Day as a son and grandson honoring my dad and grandfathers, next year we might be able to celebrate our own fatherhood unfolding.  I hope.

Movie Nights

From the comfort of our couch, my husband and I watched Reese Witherspoon in Wild this weekend, and I really enjoyed this intelligent film.  I actually might want to watch it again and I rarely watch movies more than once.  Go see this film.  It's not all fun.  Reese is unlikeable in parts of this film, which is necessary since Wild is a story about gaining the courage to heal yourself, to find yourself, and to improve yourself.  It's never too late to turn your life around.

On Saturday we went to yoga, dinner, and the movies with our friend "Nini;" his girlfriend is in Europe with work so Nini had time to chill with us.

We watched Jurassic World in IMAX 3D.  It was a big fun summer film.  A few of the plot lines were a bit over the top, but the film held our attention and entertained us the entire time.  Since I almost cried when the apatosaurus died while Chris Pratt comforted the dinosaur through it's last moments of life, I think the film had more heart than a normal big fun summer film.  I liked that the female lead was strong and powerful and courageous and she could run in high heels.  I did not like that many times Jurassic World felt like a commercial for Mercedes-Benz (Hello, product placement galore).

Boobies

Conversation that occurred last week:

Paxten: "Pat-Pat, why do you have a picture that shows his boobies?"

Me: "It's art.  It shows his chest because he's at the beach."

Paxten: "But it shows his boobies. Why?"

Paxten cracks me up...

I love you, thank you

We spent a lovely weekend hanging out at the lake with our surrogate and her husband and children.  It's fun getting to know her and her family before she carries our baby.  Our surrogate gave us these hilarious hand towels, which are now hanging out in our master bathroom, because she remembered the story we told in our profile:  Within the first week of meeting, my husband told me (for the first of an infinite number of times!) that he loved me. I replied with “thank you” – a moment that my husband still brings up. (Do you remember the time I told you ‘I love you’ and you said “thank you”?)

Our current timeline has our embryo transfers scheduled for the end of July, which means after six months it's all about to start happening! 

Gone Girls

Now that our two nieces are back home with my brother and his wife, the energy in the house has changed.  I miss my girls and the wonderful chaos they bring into the world!  Being 7 and 5 is spectacular.