Did He Know I'd Go So Green When He Married Me?

I signed up for a challenge from Joyce over at Tall Grass Worship to blog about gratitude for the whole month of November. I think this is an awesome challenge that will set the right tone for the upcoming Christmas holiday.

I promise that in the future, I will tie the gratitude theme more into the theme of this blog: going green on a budget. But today is my birthday, and today I feel awe and gratitude for my amazing husband, who knows me oh so well. So today you get to read about that.

Although the budget is really tight right now as we're struggling to sell our house in Maryland and also pay for an apartment in Raleigh, my husband asked me if I would be very upset if he got me a small something for my birthday. The very fact that he asked me shows how well he knows my frugal side, but guess what he got me (without any prompting from me)? A stainless steel water bottle. The perfect gift! (Except maybe a compost bin for some red wrigglers, but maybe I'll get that next year.)

He also talked me into heading up to Maryland for the weekend so we could attend the Green Festival in DC. I had decided that we shouldn't go, but he reminded me how much I really wanted to and helped me figure out the money issue. So we left the kids with a friend and spent the afternoon amongst the DC crunchy crowd learning about cradle-to-cradle design, compressed earth bricks, and the 12 step program to saving the planet. I'll blog more about those later. Right now the point is simply this:

After almost seven years, I still really love my husband.

Happy 30th to me!