Wedding Aniversary

Today is my five year wedding anniversary.   As crazy stuff happens in life (like Cancer), it loads the elements in your life with additional burden.  Under that burden, two things can happen.  Stresses and cracks can appear and previously hidden flaws can be rent open, or it can flex and compensate and bunker down, shouldering the new load, leaving it stronger now and in the future.

After five years in this marriage I can't think of a better decision that I've made in my life.  And that becomes more and more clear with each year, each crisis, each joy; anything life sends.

To celebrate tonight Renee and I are going to New York city for the weekend.

We have many things planned; dinner at Tribeca Grill, lunch at Pearl's Oyster Bar, a non-kids party, a Broadway show, Cirque de Soleil on Sunday and lots of uninterrupted sleep in a quiet hotel room with blackout shades and the Do Not Disturb sign on the door.

Children, while they are absolute joys in their own right, don't always foster the ideal environment for chemotherapy rest and recovery, so it'll be a nice change to be just Renee and I for a few days.

I've been feeling better since I stopped the steroids on Wednesday, although I was surprised to find that last night I was ready for bed at the same time the kids were, and I slept about 12 hours straight through.