David and I spent this past week on a mountain outside of Flat Rock, North Carolina, celebrating ten years of marriage. Wait — did you hear that? A week. Six nights. Just us. We haven’t taken a vacation of this length since our honeymoon in Barbados, ten years ago to this day. Not with kids, not without kids. How can that be? It was never our intent to wait this long for a whole-week getaway, but life just happened. You know how it goes. At first we never had money or vacation days, and then kids came along and we used up our babysitting offers for support raising and vision trips and…

 We spent the week in the Blue Ridge Cabin, and we loved it. It was cozy and comfortable and the way it was perched up on the mountain in a swath of leafy trees made me feel like we were in a treehouse. DuPont State Forest was a few miles away and we went nearly every day for hikes, once together but mostly parting ways. David loved the big, long trails but my favorite thing was hiking down to Triple Falls with a book to sit and soak in the sun. We spent our first afternoon of vacation on the Eating Asheville walking food tour (Asheville was about 50 minutes’ drive from our cabin). We’ve never done something like…