Ocho Años y Cinco de Mayo
Happy Anniversary to Us!
Happy 8th wedding anniversary to my husband and best friend, Mike, one of the absolute best humans to ever happen to me. ❤️ May is also the month of our 11th meet-and-move-in-anniversary (which also happens to be his birthday!)
We got married cinco de mayo at the Denver courthouse (no witnesses needed); a very impromptu decision after discovering the week before that my health insurance at my new job would charge me extra to add him as a “domestic partner” instead of a spouse. (Super romantic!)
“You mean to tell me that getting married would save us more than $200 a month? Can I get next Friday off please so we can run over to the courthouse?” (My boss was so amused she insisted I take off a couple days at least so we could enjoy a small honeymoon.)
A fun fact about Mike and I: we initially met “virtually” back in 1997ish in a chat room dedicated to the band, Bush. I was 15 and he was 17. We stayed online friends in the more than a decade and a half after that until finally long distance falling in love with each other (he was in Philly; I was in Colorado). And then the following year in 2014 he sold most of his belongings and drove out to Denver to both meet me in person and move in with me. On his birthday. I don’t think I’d ever been more nervous in my silly little life. 😅 I can’t even imagine what he was feeling.
One more fun fact? We were married on 5/5 and our daughter was born 10/10 the following year.
My Dear Sweetpea, thank you for taking care of me and helping make all my little dreams come true, especially in this dumpster fire of place and time. ✨ Love you to the moon and back.
