When to church, had a good time, during the end of the service I decided to send my wife a txt msg, it was a bit of a risk, but I decided to go for it: "Hope you are doing well & you are feeling great. Wanted to just let u know I love you and thanks 4 these 17 yrs you have shared with me. Have a Happy Anniversary." I was surprised at her reply of "Thank u I feel the same." I was very happy to get her reply, trying to not read a bunch into it or do anything to scare her off if she is really feeling everything I told her. One of my goals had been that she'd tell me that she loved me by our anniversary, so I guess this is an indirect answer to that goal. My other goal is that she'll move home before the kids start school at the end of the summer, we'll see about that one...
After church I picked up S13 and his friend and took them to dinner. On the drive home to get them my wife called and said "Thanks for the txt msg, I told her thanks for her reply. Then she said "we can do something next week when I'm there and I told her that I got tickets on Tuesday to the baseball game. She said that was great and that I'd better have lots of fireworks. She told me about her day, the friends she met and gone to lunch with, that she'd just gone swimming at the club, now she was going to get something to eat. I told her to have a good evening and thanks for calling, she sounded like she was really in a sweet and happy mood. I wanted to say "I love you" to her as I hung up, but waited until she was gone and after the call ended said it.
Had a nice dinner with S13 and his friend, then came home and played baseball on the PS3 with S13 after his friend went home. Decided to send my wife a txt msg of "Goodnight" and she replied with "Nite."
Good day today, 17 yrs of marriage, didn't know if I'd make it this far 6 months ago, about 50 more years or so to go... -JDK
