“I know,” I say. “But there are just some things we can’t put in an album, you know?” My eyes go to that wall again.
Colt turns to follow my gaze and then looks back at me. “You wanna take that with us, baby?”
And there go my tears again. I’m a hot mess today. “We can’t take that, Colt. That’s the whole point. We can’t take everything.”
“We’re taking it,” he says, his voice full of determination, like he’ll go to his grave before he won’t take that history record with us.
I hook my legs around him and bring his face down to mine so I can kiss him. “I love you, Five, but I’m not sure how you think we can take that with us.”
“Did I not build you a house from scratch?”
The deep rumble in his voice combined with the emotion I’m hearing works its way through me. It weaves its way into my veins, into my bones, into my soul. Exactly like he’s woven into all those things.
He did build me a house. That’s where we’re moving. “Yes, you did.”
“Right, and now I’m going to move that height chart to a wall in our new place. You figure out where you want it, and I’ll make it happen.”
His promise, and this moment, sparks a thousand more feelings for him deep inside me. Feelings I didn’t even know could still be sparked after all this time together. I thought I already loved Colt as much as I could, but now I know there’s so much more for me to feel.
Love isn’t a fixed state. It’s constantly evolving.
Unfolding, expanding, increasing.
When someone loves as well as Colt loves me, there is no horizon.
No limit to just how much love can be experienced.
And to know he’s going to find new ways to pull me in through the years, to love me more, and to make me love him more, steals some of my breath.
I tighten my arms around his neck.
I press my body to his.
And I kiss him with all that breathlessness I’m feeling about him.
This man owns me.
Every piece of me.
Most days, we go through life dealing with the day-in-day-out things.
We dress the kids, we clean the kitchen, we do the laundry, we go to work, we pay the bills, we cook dinner, we fall into bed completely spent.
Every day with him is a good day.
These are the moments that make up a life.
But some days, like today, we connect on a whole new level.
We go deep.
We explore us some more.
We connect in all the ways.
These are the days I live for.
The days I cherish above everything.
