Happy Birthday to AA

To my husband on his big mid-thirty’s birthday

little fingers–

inside your heart

all sunshine long

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sleepy eyes

perk up

before dawn snuggles

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big brain

hold small hands

inside his arms

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laugh tender

growing squiggles

our family of five

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You would never know my thesis was a poetry manuscript. This is all I got, people.

If you too love this Janod firefighter set, I cannot recommend anything from that company highly enough. Brilliant design. The box is part of the toy.

Costco pjs? Don’t mind if he does. And yes, note the Scythian sticker on the kids’ learning tower. They love their adopted uncles. If you don’t own Cake for Dinner, the kid album of the world’s bestest band, your life is incomplete. I have a copy or two for a giveaway I’ll run later this month!

Our now weekly visits to his work that include AA getting me a very large hot cocoa & the kids croissants from the Starbucks in his building, meeting us at the car, having a visit in the don’t-park-here-just-load-here spot, and then being recharged enough to survive the next 8 hours without him. It’s like drive-through love. Pictured here the kids actually got to get out and go in with him–because it was above 30 degrees finally.