Teehee, giggle, snort. Perhaps I should be writing a different lesson today: ‘I have a juvenile sense of humour’.
Cameron and I are approaching our fifth wedding anniversary. For the first two years, we made a sterling effort to buy each other thoughtful, traditionally-themed presents for our anniversaries, and to do something special together.
First anniversary. Paper. Cameron and I stayed in a luxury hotel, dined at Mirka (run by Guy Grossi, having eaten at Grossi Florentino the night Cameron proposed), and bought each other gifts made of paper. Cameron won the unofficial present-buying competition by tracking down a signed first edition of my favourite book, April Fool’s Day by Bryce Courtenay.
Second anniversary. Cotton. We went on a Slumber Safari at Werribee Open Range Zoo. We stayed in ‘tents’ that were bigger than our house, dined on African food, danced at Rhythm of Africa, and got up close to lions, hippopotamuses, giraffes, rhinoceroses, snakes… the list goes on. And I evened the present-giving score by giving Cameron the best snap of the safari on canvas:
Third anniversary. Leather. Fatigue set in. I was pregnant and exhausted, we were waiting for our house plans to be finalised, and we were pinching our pennies. We said happy anniversary, kissed, and promised to buy ourselves a leather couch when the house was finished.
Fourth anniversary. Linen. Read above, replacing ‘pregnant’ with ‘breastfeeding’, ‘a leather couch’ with ‘new bed linen’, and deleting the word ‘plans’.
Fifth anniversary. Wood. Who knows? There’s plenty of wood coming up (teehee, giggle, snort); we’re about to get new floorboards put in. That just screams ‘Honey, you still rock my world and float my boat!’. And it also means I probably won’t even be with Cameron on our anniversary. Ashleigh and I are escaping the mess and noise with some grandparent visits. Romantic, aren’t we?
I love Cameron. He loves me. We will make time soon. When it comes down to it, that’s all that really matters.
How do you celebrate your anniversaries?
Oh I love April Fools Day too (or anything by Bryce Courtney really). And I’ve recently uncovered floorboards (from beneath tiles – who does that??) ready for sanding. We must be twins. Separated at birth. 🙂
Tracy and I adhere to the same ritual. For 10 (or tin) I received a very cool Tintin tshirt and a munitions box: inventive. While I gave her a bottle of Estee Lauder perfume for steel – think about it. Suggest you and Cameron make hay while the substances make sense. Peridot is a big ask.
Who does that indeed! Bizarre. Good luck with the sanding, Lisa.
DA, the world of themed present-giving possibilities just opened up for me. Thanks. And peridot? Blimey. How long have I got to prepare for that one?!
Too funny! I think we were about as dedicated as you. We are up to eight this year. I wonder what we are meant to be doing for it? Thanks for Rewinding x
Not sure what 8 is. Better get on it – that’s coming up next!
Lol at wood too… ;o) Happy anniversary!
We went to our local Thai for ours. It was nice to just get away, sans kidlets, eat food with chilli in it and hang out for a while. X
YUM. Love me a Thai meal. Sounds great to me!
Ha ha – I have a juvenile sense of humour too! I can’t remember what we did on our 5th anniversary, we were probably in the doldrums because we’d been trying to get pregnant for 4 years by then. Little did I know, I was pregnant, so we should have been celebrating! 15 years and 3 boys later, it’s all hard to believe. Hope you put those floor boards to good use…erm..then again, that might be a bit..erm..hard. See? Told you I had a juvenile sense of humour!
I hope you’ve celebrated since! 3 boys, wow. And haha! Glad you’re on the same wavelength as me. The same low(brow) wavelength.
You are hilarious! Wood! I wished I’d known that for our 5th last year! Although considering I’d just given birth to Zee three days earlier, there was no chance for any bedroom wood! Lol! Our wedding anniversary is also the same as the anniversary of when we first started going out and we first started celebrating by staying in hotels, then progressing to motels in far flung places and searching for great fishing spots, and for our 3rd wedding anniversary in 2011 we went away up the coast for the weekend, and that was the last time we really went away. We celebrated our anniversary early last year though and combined it with my birthday and stayed the night in the hotel where we got married. Which also happens to be about 400m from our house! But it was lovely to have a kid-free night, even if I was 36 weeks pregnant!
Thanks for linking up!
WOOD. Let’s all say it again. WOOD! That’s nice that you share that anniversary. We’re coming up to 15 years together this year. We don’t usually celebrate the dating anniversary, but might have to do something special this time around.
I love that last line – indeed, what else matters?
Nothing! And everything. But only because that matters. x
We are a bit the same, our love is always there but we rarely have romantic nice gestures and with three young kids small shows of affection and kind words are often all we can muster. Naughty I know but it’ll get easier once kids are bigger 🙂
That’s what I keep telling myself, too! Cam’s parents are great – they have a tendency to give hotel and restaurant vouchers for Christmas so we’re forced to go on dates. FORCED!
Our anniversary is Australia Day so we usually just get ridiculously drunk lol.
Haha! Love it.
wood, snort!!
Aww, lovely and thoughtful efforts put in there… until there are more than two of you and priorities and finances shift. I so get it! Our anniversaries are usually spent just going out for dinner and promising to talk about anything but how to manage house, home and kids!