February 21, 2004. My wedding day.
February 21, 2010. My 6th anniversary.
We kept our celebration simple and made it last all weekend long. Jeremy was gone this weekend, so it was just the two of us. We went out for chicken schnitzel and paprikash at The Bohemian. We went on long drives. We slept in. We read books. We re-watched favorite episodes of 30 Rock
We reminisced. We napped. We sang duets in the car and attempted to harmonize. (We're not too bad
on "Nothing
Better" by The Postal Service, but "Under Pressure"
could use some work. FYI: In this scenario, I'm Freddie Mercury and Trav
is David Bowie.) We listed to "our song"—a song Travis included on a mix CD in 2002 that served as part of the soundtrack for us falling in love.
We felt very, very lucky.
Happy anniversary, sweetie.
Journaling Idea
During our many conversations, we posed several different questions to each other and discussed our answers:
- What memories stand out to you about our wedding?
- Looking back over the past 6 years, what has surprised you the most?
- What things have happened (or not happened) in the last 6 years that neither of us expected?
- What do you love most about our life right now?
- Would you still love me if a terrible accident deprived me of my lower jaw? (Many different body parts can and have been substituted for the underlined bit. And in case you're wondering, there's only one acceptable answer to this question, and it is YES.)
Since many of our answers to these questions are too sappy or personal for public consumption (I'll spare you an eye roll or two), I recorded my answers in my Encyclopedia of Angie's Ordinary Life word document, filed under the heading "Sixth Anniversary." (My version is just an ongoing Word document saved on my computer, as described here, with various ruminations and memories organized alphabetically by topic.) Who knows? These memories just might make their way onto scrapbook pages.
