This week, marriage was…

Waking up to your kisses all over my face and shoulders.

{Best alarm clock ever.}

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Cooking with freshly-picked herbs

{basil from our little basil plant}

for the first time.

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A mirror held up to each of our faces,

brutally honest,

softly demanding growth and change.

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Teaching each other about ourselves.

{Yes, almost 2 years in, there’s still more to learn.}

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Hard conversations and hard moments.

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Beauty at the beach.

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Laughter and lots of it.

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Unsuccessful searches for breakfast spots along the sunny streets of San Mateo.

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Watching the World Cup downtown with the rest of San Francisco.

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Marveling at the fact that one day, it’ll no longer be just the two of us

{as we get closer and closer to growing our little family of two}.

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Our 2nd visit to the church we’re beginning to like more and more,

and the encouragement that brings.

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God blessing us with insight, conviction, instruction and discernment.

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Me learning how to make {really tasty, semi-healthy} cinnamon donuts at home.

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Your shoulders as the best pillow I’ve ever had.

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You seeing me angry for the very first time.

REALLY angry!

{Thankfully, not at you.}

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Standing atop one of the hills in our neighborhood

to take in the views of South San Francisco, the airport, the water, and even Oakland.

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Me having a horrible headache,

and you being the remedy.

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A 2 mile run together

along the track near our apartment.

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Crawfish beignets and watermelon iced tea.

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Biscuits so good you’ve gotta eat them with your mouth closed.

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A glass of red wine with dinner.

{and then}

That red wine made into green apple and watermelon sangria the next night.

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Us both loving the warmer nights

and the fact that it’s meant abandoning cotton and comfy for satin and slinky. ;)

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This week, marriage was all those things, and all those things were

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P.S. Happy Weekend! How was your week?