The Best

This has been a crazy, hard week at work.  I'm not exactly sure why, but something is off in my classroom and teachers are complaining like crazy and it's just been one of those weeks.

Thursday night though, was one of the best nights I've had in a LONG time.  It was just so sweet and so perfect and so needed.

To begin with, it was the day I'd been counting down to for a few weeks--the day I got to go to the doctor and hear our sweet baby's heartbeat and hear that everything was still looking good.  So after work, I headed over.  When I got in the room, I called Landon and put him on speakerphone and together we got to hear the sweet, sweet swooshing sound of our baby.  It's heartbeat was a little slower this time, in the upper 140's, but sounder louder and strong.  The doctor let us listen for a while and I was in heaven.  It's still so crazy sometimes for me to think there's a real little baby in there.

When I got home I did a little cleaning and some laundry and was changing to go to the gym and walk some, when Landon called.  He proposed that we skip our workouts that night and, in honor of the healthy baby report, we go out and celebrate and just spend the night together.  It had been a long, busy week for us both and seemed like we hadn't seen each other much.  So, needless to say, I jumped on the idea.  I don't think he had any idea how much I needed a night out with him at that moment, but it almost made me cry when he suggested it.  He told me to put on something nice and he'd be by on his way home from work to pick me up.

We spent the next couple of hours at Kona Grill, eating and talking and catching up.  It was wonderful.  I probably talked his ear off, but he was nice and let me. :)  We spent the rest of the evening just hanging out and talking and watching a little TV.  As we were going to bed that night, I turned to him and thanked him for a perfect night.  Because literally, it was.  And he turned to me and told me "You're welcome.  Thank you for carrying our baby".

Melt. my. heart.  I think I fell even more in love with him in that moment than ever before.

Thank you for being you, Landon.  I could not ask for a better husband and am so lucky to be yours.