Today is our ninth anniversary and we are spending it as most married couples would prefer, in separate timezones.
You are on Day Three of a six-day conference in Seattle, complaining to me on the phone yesterday that your hotel room has no coffeemaker. In Seattle. I don't know how to talk to you anymore.
I am on Day Three of a six-day solo stint with the kids, a technique that falls just below waterboarding in the United Nations list of prohibited interrogation methods.
Hearing that your flight there was forced down in Denver when the pilot's windshield cracked was sobering to say the least. I don't even have a joke to make about it. Come home safely.
I'd write more but you took my laptop. I'm using our daughter's hand-me-down desktop. It has only crashed a four times during the composition of this post. My efforts at debugging it must be working.
So happy anniversary, The Mom. Celebrate it by going out to dinner tonight someplace nice. Me and the kids are having corn dogs.
Love,
The Dad
Happy anniversary!
Posted by: caramaena | March 21, 2007 at 08:29 AM
Six days with the kids might be behind waterboarding but it's way harsher than bamboo shoots under fingernails.
Posted by: Mr.Pubin | March 21, 2007 at 09:43 AM
Right back at you, sweetie! I lucked out 19 year ago when I met you and especially lucked out 9 year ago when we were married.
Good luck with the kids solo. Soon you'll have The Gmama there to help out. My fingers are crossed that you make it until 10pm when she arrives.
Save a corndog for me! I must run to a bfast meeting where I will feed only myself, will pick nothing up off the floor, and will not worry about anyone's nutrition, least of all mine. (Nanny-nanny-boo-boo :-) )
Posted by: The Mom | March 21, 2007 at 09:47 AM
The Mom: If I had wanted the Internet to know that my mom was coming to help tonight, I would have included it in the original post. How in the hell am I supposed to build a "one-man-against-the-world" mythos if you keep undermining me?
Posted by: The Dad | March 21, 2007 at 10:01 AM
When your mom gets there, make sure you get out somewhere for a quiet beer or six. Everybody needs "down time" from an exhausting, high responsibility job. And celebrate your anniversary when the Mom returns, with my congratulations.
Posted by: Petunia | March 21, 2007 at 10:08 AM
I feel really, really old. That means we all started college almost 20 years ago. I never thought I'd say I did anything "twenty years ago."
Anyhoo-- Happy anniversary you crazy kids!
Posted by: The Godfather | March 21, 2007 at 10:09 AM
Happy Anniversary! I'm sorry that you have to spend it apart.
Posted by: schmutzie | March 21, 2007 at 10:14 AM
Happy Anniversary!
Dear The Mom: I travel a lot for business and leave my wife alone with the twins - but being gone on your anniversary? That's low.
Forgetting it because you are sleep deprived? That's ok.
Enjoy.
Posted by: Dirk | March 21, 2007 at 11:06 AM
On behalf of all Seattle, I personally apologize for no coffee maker in the hotel room. There are several lovely places to get excellent cups of coffee in our fair city, probably including the hotel lobby. As for a nice solo anniversary dinner, try Blue Ginger. Or, grab a group of friends and get yourselves to a place called Pasta Freska. Trust me, it's definitely worth it!
Oh, and The Dad, good luck with having the three kids by yourself. I am always ready for my husband to come back to us after he's been on a business trip.
Posted by: Holly | March 21, 2007 at 11:19 AM
Happy Anniversary!!
Posted by: Amy | March 21, 2007 at 11:20 AM
Happy anniversary! Sounds like you'll be taking the next "working vacation!" (Sans children, of course.)
Posted by: Kate | March 21, 2007 at 11:28 AM
I love that you were married on the first day of spring. I think that's a sign of fertility or something. Anyway, Happy Anniversary! Enjoy it with your mother (snicker).
Posted by: Sue | March 21, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Wow. I had sympathy for you when I heard you were solo for 6 days with three kids. Now to hear your mom is coming, yikes. Maybe your mom is different than mine but when my wife goes away (as infrequently as I take the shackles off her ankles and give her some room to roam) I beg her not to tell my mother. It's just like having a fifth child to watch.
Posted by: John | March 21, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Oops. Forgot to add "Happy Anniversary." That whole imagining my mom coming to help thing got me flustered. I'll have a beer in your honor.
Posted by: John | March 21, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Happy ANNIVERSARY! You know what? It's also OUR ninth anniversary!!
We all got married on the SAME DAY!!
Here's to us!
Posted by: TSM | March 21, 2007 at 01:32 PM
duuuuuuuuuuude, TheMom totally made you eat it!!
She must have done that "without realizing it"
Posted by: me | March 21, 2007 at 02:49 PM
Happy Anniversary.
BTW, if I had my choice, I'd actually be eating the corn dogs on my special day.
Posted by: Hygiene Dad | March 21, 2007 at 07:34 PM
Happy anniversary to both of you and the reason why the hotel has no coffee maker in the room (I'm guessing anyways) is because there is a coffee shop (Tully, Starbucks, Seattles Best, etc) on virtually every corner in the city.
Posted by: Michell | March 21, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Happy Anniversary!
The Mom: I hear the best way to punish a man for a long engagement is with twins... my husband's still trying to figure out what he did wrong.
Congrats again and have a safe trip!
Posted by: Loren | March 21, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Happy Anniversary!!
Posted by: Lisa | March 22, 2007 at 11:51 AM
Happy Anniversary!
On my husband's last "business" trip, he called and complained, from a beach in Australia, that he hadn't packed the right flips. I was on my 3rd night with a teething child watching in rain in Seattle. I feel your pain.
Posted by: Jen | March 22, 2007 at 02:00 PM
Aw, how sweet! Happy Anniversary, you two! And WELCOME Granma!
Posted by: whymommy | March 23, 2007 at 02:24 PM