Feeling like a newly wed again...

So Jake and I will be married 5 years this month! WOW. Plus we have 3 kids, we definitely aren't newlyweds anymore, hehe. And I love it that way. I love that we can screw up big time, and be forgiven without even a second thought, I love the way he still looks at me-with love and caring, I love the way he holds my hand-and yes, it still gives my heart a little flutter, I love the way he hugs me-like nothing else matters, I love the way he loves me, and I love him. He is such a good man, a good husband, a good father. I am so thankful for him. Now I'm not much of a romantic, even after the words you have just read, but his love for me and our children makes me so happy! He sacrifices every day for us...amazing.

i.e. So...thursday night (after the kids were in bed), to be specific, we are watching "Shall We Dance?"-an older romantic movie with Richard Gere and J-Lo. Not by choice really, we rarely watch romance movies together, but he is taking a Marital and PreMarital Counseling course for his Masters and he has to do 2 marriage movie reviews. Which the first he picked was FireProof (if you haven't seen it....SEE IT!!) and he picked"Shall We Dance?" for the second. Well at the end of the movie Richard Gere walks into his wife's (not J-Lo) place of work with a single rose and dressed in a tux (they were going through a "boring" phases in their marriage) and hands the rose to her and starts dancing with her. So during the credits I took Jake's hand and we started dancing. Now slow dance is just not Jake's thing, but he did it anyway and then we were just laughing, giggling and doing crazy, silly things for about 10 minutes. Ahhh, it was so wonderful. I felt like we were still dating or even like we were newlyweds again. This kinda thing happens more often than not-but that's just a recent example that I thought was so fun and cute :-)

I love you Jake <3