Thanks for Matthew.

In case you had forgotten. I have filled up a good portion of this blog with posts about my husband, Matt. I just don't run out of stuff to say about him. He is the love of my life. He is the most important person in my life and my favorite person that I've ever met. He challenges me every day to be a better person. Not like deliberately, as some sort of project... just by virtue of being him. And he shows incredible love to me and to our kids by his dedication and work ethic and just--solidness.

I remember an email he wrote me back in 2002... Or perhaps 2003... When he said "Maybe you can't be everything to everyone, but you are everything to me." Had I been quoting the band Everclear to him? It's possible. Maybe even probable. Maybe I was thinking that I knew all the right people, I played all the right games, I always tried to be everything to everyone. But my intimate knowledge of '90s grunge-pop is neither here nor there. The point is that I hope I still live up to that for him. He definitely does for me. He is everything to me. I'm so thankful for him every day and especially on his birthday. And I'm sorry for quoting Everclear on a blog post about him but maybe he's not offended because he probably doesn't even know who Everclear was. He missed all the worst of late '90s pop (and by "worst" I also mean "best") while he was out preaching the gospel in Brazil and I was getting my braces tightened and carrying my Discman in my Roxy shoulder bag. Whoops, there I go making it about me again. Can we all just agree that Matt is the man? I lucked out big time.