the anniversary post

yesterday my nephew asked me to tell him my favorite song. ridiculous crazy-face. i told him i could try for a top 5 or 10, but even then i felt stumped. i named a few beatles songs, some nanci griffith, deb talan, lyle lovett, counting crows, lucinda williams. oh! the be good tanyas. but it was like trying to choose which of my children i love best (in a scenario in which i have 100,000 children). then he asked me which of my children i love best. these are tough questions with really easy answers: i don't have a favorite. i have lots of favorites. go watch TV. oh, it's still stolen. go outside and play.

but then tonight i was out celebrating with bim (a little something they call a four-year anniversary) and the movie we went to see used an instrumental version of this song. it sparked a memory of listening to placido domingo sing it on one of my parents' records. i love it. especially this version. it's funny because it's true.

just like my love for bim, who definitely makes my top 5 list (you're welcome, babe). tippy top, actually.

four years may not seem like a long time. and if you compare it to infinity, it's not (if there's anything i learned in first grade). but if you compare it to 3 months, which was bim's relationship record to that point, i made out like a bulldozer.

{that image just works on so many levels.}

these four years have been full of goods, though. lots of different views out of different rental units, lots of furniture being rearranged. i've had two babies, bim has had none (technically), though we share the two i had. he's gone from student to clerk to daytime attorney and after-hours super hero. i've gone from inept PR person to queen of my domain.

and may i just say here how happy i have been? every day for four years i have begun and ended my day with the same prayer: thank you for bim.

don't these people look confident? it's like they know how ridiculously easy marriage is going to be. this is to bim, for making it that way.

"and time after time
you'll hear me say that i'm
so lucky to be loving you."