Happy Birthday Matthew!

Happy birthday (yesterday) to my incredible husband! I can't even begin to express the depths of my love for you, so I will leave it to the words of my close personal friend Billy Shakespeare!

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

(Shakespeare's Sonnets #116)

I am so glad to know that our love is made of the stuff that Shakespeare speaks! I know that no alteration our lives may find, no storm or doom that faces us, though our "rosy cheeks" might fade with each year, our love will always be my guiding star. A truth that shapes my life. You have permanently changed who I am, and thus you are as much a part of me as I am of myself. Truly the other half to my whole. SO glad that you are my best friend! I am sorry that your Birthday was not a great one, but here's to the deep happiness and lasting joy that lie beneath life's daily frustrations!

[****TO THOSE WONDERING AN UPDATE POST IS COMING SOON, FILLED WITH LOTS OF PICTURES AND A MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE ATTITUDE THAN MY LAST POST! :) BUT THIS ONE WAS FOR MY MATTYPANTS AND I WON'T DO THE NEXT POST TIL I AM SURE THAT HE HAS READ THIS!*****]