Jen and I celebrated our 8-year anniversary this past Tuesday at a wonderful dinner at L’Avenue, a neighborhood restaurant.

My wife wrote a very heart felt post about the love that we share between each other and the relative value of that love to our two kids.  Given that I was involved in the conversation, I feel pretty much the same way:

While my heart is also filled with my love for our children, it is frankly a much simpler and less nuanced love at this point in time. Yes, they amaze me and fill me with wonder and joy, and I couldn’t imagine life without them them. It boggles the mind to grasp that they really are creations that you and I made, and I’m proud to see the results of our parenting helping them turn into wonderful little human beings. Our love for them and them for us is unconditional…clear, simple.

One of the things that I am amazed at to this day is how eye-to-eye we see things.  I think of our relationship as “seamless but effortful”; always growing and evolving.  I can think of no one else I rather do this with.

-T