Sweetest Thing ...

So, today is our anniversary. We celebrated Friday night with a fun date night -- dinner at a new restaurant, shopping on Market Square, treats from Starbucks on the way home. Tonight, we had Living Christmas Tree practice, so there wasn't much hoopla. I stopped on the way home from school and got Randy a card; he brought me flowers. The kids were watching us exchange these things along with sweet words for each other, and Hudson gets an idea. As we're getting ready to leave for church, he comes to me with a red piece of construction paper. It's folded horizontally like the start of a paper airplane.


The side I see first says: frum Hudson and olivia
There's a heart drawn beneath the words.
I turn it over.
This side says: hape anavasre dad and mom
The d's in dad are in the shape of hearts


Hudson twiddles my hair as I study his effort. So sweet. It was all I could do to keep from crying. I show it to Randy. We thank him for this gift, and I say ...


Me: Hudson do you know what 'anniversary' means?
H: (silence)
H: Ummm, yes! Yes, I do. (with unconvincing giggling afterwards which means he really doesn't know what it means!)
Me: Well, what does it mean?
H: Ummmm ... is it ... (thinking) ... (adding his finger beside his mouth to help with the thinking) ... is it the day you got married?


We all cracked up. He guessed it! And here is his card ...