8 Years!

Today was our 8 year anniversary :)   My hubby came home with a Mt Dew for me and told me 'Happy Anniversary!'.  I laughed and told him he was a day early and would have to get me another one tomorrow.  He was confused.  Then he asked if I knew that our anniversary was today.  I insisted that it wasn't.  Went and looked at the calendar...and it is today.  Opps!  So right in front of him, I pulled out the anniversary card I had picked up this morning while he was asleep, signed it, and handed it to him.  He was very impressed :)

Our real anniversary gift is a big one this year.  Actually it was not an anniversary gift, I started calling it one to soothe Simon's guilty conscious/buyers remorse.  Our TV died on Thursday night.  It was very sad.  Especially because we've had a sick child, who takes after her dad in that she wants to be right with the rest of the family while she is sick and miserable (personally, I like to wallow in my misery in solitude and hole up in my bedroom when sick), so Friday was pretty unbearable for us all while she laid on the couch sick, with no TV to watch.  I repeatedly suggested that she go lay in my bed and watch TV, but nope.  She had to be with the family and would only go upstairs if we ALL went upstairs to watch TV with her.  So Saturday morning I declared that we needed a new TV and we needed it NOW.  So Simon researched and went off to buy a TV.  We won't talk about what he had to do to my van in order to get this TV inside it.  The important thing is that he got it.  But this thing is huge.  Seriously huge.  It is plasma instead of LED, so it was actually discounted.  We had decided to get one that we really like.  We don't really keep up with all the latest gadgets or anything.  So we'll have this thing until it dies as well.  But man.  It is big.  And totally sticks out like a sore thumb in our living room.  We're just now getting around to slowly trying to get the house 'nice'.  So yeah.  This TV is the only really new, modern looking thing in there!  We love it though :)  Although...having this giant new TV...and no cable or satellite to watch on it...is proving a little hard (and disappointing for some of us, I think.  Even the kids were briefly excited thinking the new TV meant that we would have channels again.  Sorry kids!  No such luck.).  So really its an awesome anniversary gift that the whole family can enjoy.