Wedding anniversary
Wednesday, 22 January, 2003
Ben and I are one week away from our third wedding anniversary. According to this site, the traditional gift for the third anniversary is leather and the modern gift is crystal or glass. Who makes these things up? Does that mean that we should give each other leather/crystal/glass things as presents? (Too late, I already got him something and it doesn't have any leather, crystal or glass in it.)
Unlike Ben, I think the wedding anniversary is more significant than New Year's Eve. It's the chance to look at how we're going together and make new anniversary resolutions, such as:
- We will reading the Bible together more (we're not very good at that);
- We will pray together more (we hardly do that);
- We will try to be clearer when we communicate and not assume things;
- We will try to find ways of handling our anger better; etc.
On our anniversary, we can put the past behind us with all its mistakes, anger and bitterness and start afresh. We can forgive each other for sinning against each other in thought, word and deed and what we have failed to do. We can pray that God will help us to make this year better and cause our love for one another and for him to grow.
Unfortunately our anniversary lands right in the middle of a week of commencing student enrolments. Ben will be doing MTS stuff at the University of Wollongong and I will be vainly trying to handle the vast chaotic spaghetti mess that will be University of New South Wales enrolments. So we're going to try to celebrate on Monday, the public holiday. I'm hoping we can go somewhere nice, have a picnic together and take lots of silly photos of ourselves with the digital camera for me to blog later.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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congrats on the anny!
Happy Anniversary for tomorrow. (i think that’s when you said it was?)
I’m glad you said what you did about it being a time to start afresh and make resolutions etc, I hadn’t actually thought of it that way. I mean, I’d always thought of it as a celebration, but not as a new start. Thanks for that!
Oh, and I know what you mean about opposition to young couples getting married. I was 20 and my husband Nick was 18 when we got married. We were lucky becuase our parents were fine with it, but a lot of people said “gosh you’re young arent you?” and all that sort of thing, even some older christians thought of us as too young, not because they saw us as young for our age as such, but just that 18 and 20 was a young age to get married! Its crazy isnt it.