Take Two!

Take Two!

Good morning, loves! How are you all today? I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much better after a few days of being sick. I'm feeling so great, in fact, that I've decided that tonight will be take 2 of our anniversary celebration.

Our actual anniversary this Tuesday was nice and cozy and all but to be completely honest it wasn't really the greatest anniversary ever. J & I were so sick that we could barely even muster enough energy to look at each other, never mind anything romantic.

But the nice part of being together 25 years means that we don't sweat the small stuff. Things come up in life and we just make the best of it. And that's exactly what we're going to do tonight.

Rather than attend Fashion's Night Out tonight {can you say sacrifice???}, I've decided to take J to dinner and the theater. J's been wanting to see Anything Goes since the spring so I decided yesterday to get tickets for tonight. How good of a wife am I? The things you do for love.... :)

And then we'll follow that up by popping open the bottle of Dom that my sister & brother-in-law gave us for our anniversary. Nice gift, right? Love them!

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

xoxo

Images: 1, 2, 3, 4 All photos edited by The Alternative Wife

Our Special Day

Our Special Day

Good morning, lovelies! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. It was a long one here in the states and now it's back from vacation for me and back to reality.

Luckily to make the transition easier, today happens to be a very special day for me & J. It's our 25th anniversary of being together. Yeah I know 25 years sounds almost impossible for someone not yet 40 but it's true. We've been together since we were 14 years old.

I'm so incredibly fortunate to have met the love of my life way back when. We grew up together and I ended up marrying my best friend. Lucky me! Looking back I always knew we would end up where we are today. Living our dream life and being happier than ever.

To my J...Thank you, my love, for being my love, my life & my best friend and for making all of my dreams come true. I know I'm the luckiest girl alive!

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

xoxo

Images: 1, 2 edited by The Alternative Wife

Summer Souvenirs

Summer Souvenirs

Hope you're all enjoying the last unofficial days of summer this weekend. Looking forward to taking it all in and putting many more treasures in my memory box. We have a wedding to attend today and then the rest of the weekend is ours to do with whatever we choose. Our one year anniversary on Monday so the weekend is sure to be filled with lots of celebrating.

Enjoy, darlings! xoxo

Images: 1-4, 6&7 via It's Pretty Light, 5 via Unstitched edited by The Alternative Wife

Keepin Cool

Keepin Cool

Happy Monday lovelies! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. Mine was wonderful. Got some time in at the beach and we also celebrated our anniversary yesterday. Pure bliss. I'm just loving the summertime. Totally have that summer mentality going on and I'm feeling calm, cool & collected. Speaking of keeping cool, the temperatures are really, really high. Today it's going to be in the mid nineties and in the city that can be pretty unbearable. I'm planing on lightweight dressing and dreams of cool treats and refreshing pools to keep me cool today.

Sorry I haven't been around for a few days. I'll be stopping around your way soon and can't wait to catch up with you all. In the meantime stay cool, darlings! xoxo

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Love Is In The Air

Love Is In The Air

Good morning, lovelies! So sorry I haven't been around much lately. Between the long weekend at the beach house, hectic work days, and our anniversary yesterday things have been a little difficult. I do miss visiting though and promise to be around real soon.

All in all things are truly wonderful though. As I mentioned yesterday was one of our anniversaries. I say one because we celebrate quite a few. Our civil ceremony which took place 2 years ago yesterday in Connecticut, our commitment ceremony which we had 15 years ago coming up in August and our first date/NY wedding ceremony & reception which is in September. It's a lot to keep track of but we like to celebrate so it's not really a problem for us :)

Our 25th anniversary, yes I did say 25 years, we got together on the young side, is coming up this September so we decided to keep last night's celebration on the lower key side. J took me to finally get an iPhone. I was so excited because I've been wanting one for years but had to switch providers and we never got around to making the switch. Can you say officially addicted? Yes it's true. I love it! Then we had a romantic, absolutely delicious dinner at Union Square Cafe. It was wonderful and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect anniversary.

Hope you're all having a wonderful week. Sending lots of love your way!
xoxo

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