Becky randomly stated to me that she was reading the Submissive Wife forum on Ravelry & being nosey I had to poke around. I guess being a UU I don’t quite understand that, but it’s ok. It makes me glad that I have the choice not to be submissive, and it makes me also glad that they have the right to.  It’s not how I would choose to live my life, but I’m thankful I have the right to choose.   I am thankful every day that I don’t have to live a certain way, or think a certain way and be prosicuted for it.

Faith is always a hard subject. My mother always taught me that there were two things that we do not ever talk about with people we don’t know all that well.  Politics and religion.  We all believe diffrent things, even as people of the same faith.  We are all human with vast imaginations, views, thoughts and ideas.  It is hard when there are people who like to tell you how wrong you are, but as long as they are living a good life, doing harm to none then I will gladly let them tell me how wrong I am.  I don’t have to agree with it.  That is the beauty of life, and of our freedoms.

This year the Mr and I will be celebrating our 5th anniversary. (I think we may have been suckers to fate because not only is this the Mr’s 30th year of life, it’s also his parents 35th year of marriage too.  So many big events in one year, and we are guaranteed that every 5 years it’s going to be a big deal all around, in the next 5 years, it will be our 10th and his parents 40th!)

The Mr and I don’t really celebrate our anniversary.  We are not an uber romantic couple to begin with (he “proposed” over the phone when he was living in CA & I was in MN, and I received my ring in the parking lot of a Home Depot after picking him up from the airport) maybe it’s because we had a super short (ie 4 months) courtship, maybe it’s because we worked together for 4 years of our marriage, or it means more to me that he cleans out the cat box without me asking than it does to ever receive flowers? I don’t know. We love each other unconditionally & feverishly, but I guess we try to express it every day rather than in grand gestures.  Maybe because we were soooo broke the first year of our marriage?

The point is that we have cruised quite easily and quickly through almost 5 years of marriage.  Now that we work at different companies we are able to take a full week off work and go on vacation. This year we have planned it around our anniversary.  But where to go?

We have been thinking about Sanibel Island FL, but since we now again live every day in a temperate beautiful climate, would it be as wonderful to go to Florida?  Then we thought about Flagstaff AZ because I have never as an adult experienced the Grand Canyon.  I kinda thought Santa Fe NM would be fun.  I’ve always wanted to go to Boston (but maybe not for a full 10 days).

I just don’t know. Any ideas? We are definitely not tropical people. We enjoy crisp much more than any other weather.