The Big 10

Today is our 10th wedding anniversary. We're eating at our favorite restaurant, Trattoria Monti, and coming home at a decent hour. We haven't bought each other any presents and the day will proceed as it always does. Our true celebration will be two days of childlessness in Umbria when we head here for two blissful days and nights and celebrate our couplehood. There will still be the calls made and received by an anxious Giulia who at 8 years old is already full of "my worries" and Viola who is still nursing will be taking it the hardest - our babysitter and my mother-in-law who will be visiting during that time will have their hands full. Yet for that brief weekend we'll just luxuriate in each other and the peace, contentment and solitude that comes when it's just the two of us. Oh that, and A LOT of sex.