Starfish Dreams

Hubby's birthday

Yesterday was Starfish Daddy's birthday - he's now past his "mid-40's" and so stinkin' wonderful.  We were dating years ago when we celebrated his 24th birthday - our first together.  We were engaged 6 weeks later and married just 4 months after that.  Anyway, I digress. 

We've had so much stress and upheaval here lately, including but not limited to him being laid off recently that it COULD be taking a toll on our marriage - but it's not.  We have been through SO much that I can't anticipate a single situation that would break our marriage. We also don't take our marriage for granted and work hard at it.  One of the things we do is to date each other.  Last night, at the end of a long, full day we headed off to dinner at one of our very favorite Chinese restaurants.  They sat us in a booth and instead of sitting across from each other, we scooted around to the "curve" in the booth and sat right next to each other.  I kept my hand on his leg as much as possible - I really love that man.  Anyway, we ordered, the service was quick and the waitress attentive.  Finally, towards the end of our meal she says to us: