dan and i celebrated our 4th anniversary. since donovan was born i told dan that i wanted to go away one night for our anniversary. i figured he would be 6 months and the timing would be right with leaving him with my parents.
on a side note...as a mother i question if i should not feel comfortable leaving him at this point...i know so many other moms who say they did not leave for the first year or more...and so i question myself about this. i guess there is no right or wrong on this subject, and now that it is over i do not regret it.....
back to our anniversary........my parents came into town friday evening to gear up for babysitting duty on saturday. saturday morning dan and i kissed the boy and set off to asheville for the night. we took a leisurely drive on the parkway leaf looking at the spot we got engaged. it has been right around 6 months since we have been in the car fully relaxed not waiting on when little man may have had enough of his car seat. it was a crystal clear 70 degree day that allowed us to park our car at our downtown hotel and walk the rest of the weekend.
dan and i still know lots of people in asheville, and although excruciating to not call them, i wanted dan and i to have a selfish weekend to ourselves with no place to be and nothing to do. and so the weekend continued with amazing ashevil
le food, i had a massage while dan watched some baseball (pretty good planning on dan's part :)), watching the sunset at grove park, and a nice long dinner and talk about how lucky we are and have been. dan and i met in asheville and being able to reminisce about life then and now was so awesome. we love our life now more than we can explain, and being able to have an evening to focus on that without a worry about our little boy was just perfect. so thank you mama and daddy for allowing that to happen.
sunday morning we were able to open our eyes without hitting the floor trying to catch up on the day. we continued our leisurely weekend with a long breakfast reading the paper and another walk around town. dan and i always drive by his old house in asheville when we are in town. the house has been up for sale a couple of times since dan sold it and we have always wondered what is going on with the house and our old neighbors. to finish up a perfect weekend we spotted our old neighbor in the driveway and were able to get the low down on the old home place and see all our old neighbors. they shared pictures of their grand kids and we showed off donovan.
on our way out of town we grabbed a pumpkin spice latte (seriously i am not joking this weekend was perfect) and headed down the mountain. i think it may be the first time i have not been teary eyed leaving the mountains since i knew donovan was at the other side.
we got home to a giggling baby, grabbed a pizza with mama and daddy and then thanked them and sent them on our way. we feel so lucky to be able to have such fabulous parents that allow dan and i to have time together while they love up on the little guy. we spent the rest of the evening playing pee-pie and reading donovan's new book with him (we did the whole the parents leave town and bring back a surprise thing :)) what a fabulous weekend....and life.
***by the way the picture of the duck was just a perfect "asheville" experience of walking by a duck in a car.....that is soooo asheville
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