Two years ago, when asked if I promised to love you, comfort you, honor and keep you for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and health and forsaking all others, being faithful only to you so long as we both shall live, the only honest answer was that I really, really do. Two years have passed and my answer remains the same. You are my best friend, my teammate, the first person I turn to in all situations and the only person I can imagine sharing every single day of the rest of my life with. You are my ever-present buoy in the sometimes tumultuous waters of life. Here’s to year three of married life, and to all the years to come that will stack on top of each other faster than we can ever predict that they will.

I hope you remember on this day, (and every day) that this ring is my gift to you, a symbol that I will love you forever, with all of my heart and every last bit of my soul.

I’m your moon. You’re my moon. We go round and round.*

*from i’m your moon by Jonathan Coulton

Sun Gold Cherry tomato and Sugar Sprint pea beginnings.

Today I turned 28. It’s 10:15pm and I’ve had what feels like one of the most love and joy filled birthdays I’ve had the pleasure to enjoy. It’s been low-key. A few gifts from people I love most. A good dinner with my husband. Knitting group and phone calls from loved ones. Emails and twitter and facebook messages wishing me joy and happiness. Unlike on my 27th birthday, today I feel like I fit into myself. If today is any indication, 28 is going to be a splendid year for me. And now? That cake there? It’s calling my name.

Etymology: The origin of the word cuttlefish can be found in the old English term cudele, itself derived in the 1400s from the Norwegian koddi (testicle) and the Middle German kudel (pouch), a literal description of the cephalopod’s shape. The Greco-Roman world valued the cephalopod as a source of the unique brown pigment released from its siphon when alarmed. Hence, the word for it in Greek and Latin is sepia (later seppia in Italian). [via Wikipedia] photo taken at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon.