Happy Wedding Anniversary (even though we forgot)

For our wedding Anniversary I wrote you a love poem Baxter...

              I'll love you forever...  

                      I'll love you for always xxx

The Quilt Makers ...

We met much earlier then you remember and yet I never forgot that first stolen glance and the flushing that filled my 11 year old cheeks each time your name was spoken thereafter.

It took us 12 years to meet again, only this time you remembered me. It started with a Simpson's joke and an awkward high five and a flushing of my cheeks still.

One year later, as we knelt at that alter, unlike a lamb to the slaughter, I gave myself over to you freely. Eternally Sealed myself to yourself like the makings of a finely stitched quilt... We made promises to finish it together. Added children like patchwork to give beauty to our art and enrich the fabrics.

 
But making quilts is messy and we are 6 years into eternity and feeling the weight of the scraps... Like tracing paper outlines pinned to calico we feel fragile and tacked together lightly... The very thought of our hard work being so easily unsewn is frightening.

Love. is hardwork....

But Our love is biblical and you know me like Adam knew Eve and even they passed through sorrow to find joy. And though there may be snakes in our garden, the fruit is still sweet to taste.

With the pain of each needle's prick and the pulling of threads we grow tightly knit together.

You see...
           Quilting takes time and we are only 6 years into forever with nothing but time on our sides ... and our hands and our backs...

So let fire and life rage at our doorstep. It will only make for better built blanket forts to keep us tucked in safely...
                     Together!