Here's an easy way to never forget your wedding anniversary. Get married on 11/11/11. Today thousands of couples, who probably had pretty cool save the dates, said "I do."
As parents, we must engage in many unpleasant and difficult situations. It's the tough talks that our children remember. Explaining death is one of those topics. Our kids are exposed to death each day. Listen to the new, or watch cartoons in the morning and you will find yourself astonished by all the violence and references to death. Our children have become somewhat desensitized by death until it happens to a pet, a family member or a national crisis such as what happened ten years ago on September 11.
“Couple Celebrates 80 Years of Marriage!” Just a sensational headline? Incredibly, no! The latest in a number of marriages highlighted in the news over the past year tell the remarkable story of Mitchell and Mattie Atkins of West Philadelphia. Married on January 14th, 1930, they were honored recently by family and friends at an anniversary party celebrating an incredibly rare 80 years together.
I look at my friends (Facebook and otherwise), peers, colleagues and I'm hard pressed to find people in my life that I can share my 10th wedding anniversary with that know what it means to reach this milestone. If I look at the same group, where are my mentors, the people who have been beyond 10 years, the ones I can learn from along the way? I realize my wife and I have primarily been alone in this. Perhaps WE are the mentors, maybe we have something to offer. Here are some thoughts. First, I got to thinking, why does 10 years matter?
What goes better than celebrating and champagne? Just in time for your next milestone Freixenet has a new sparkling wine and it's called Voveti. Voveti (meaning "vow" in Italian) is a crisp, tasty Prosecco and is excellent for pairing with just about any dish and for celebrating any romantic life event.
Guess what? Anniversaries and other "special" days are all man-made. It is we who gave them meaning. Which means we also have the power to give them un-meaning. What do I mean by that? A day that, by everyone else's calendar, is just another Saturday could be a real minefield when we attach significant meaning to it.
We're currently living on the edge of a new pregnancy, and the tension this involves has us virtually climbing the walls. Our relaxation solution? Plan an adults-only trip for our five-year anniversary. We're thrilled at the prospect of having some time together, but just planning this trip around work, childcare and our finances is eventful in itself. Parenting really is, and always will be, living on the edge of chaos.
On September 11, 2010, Jessica Dunne married her high school sweetheart, James Greilick. While the choice of date may be questionable at the very least to some if not many, Dunne and her then-fiancé had decided to give the numbers 9 and 11 a bit of their own personal significance—instead of letting terrorists decide for them the meaning of that date. On a day when much of the country was preoccupied with grieving, mourning, and furious, politically-charged shouting over religion, Dunne and Greilick happily took their wedding vows and honored the victims of 9/11 in their own beautiful way.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have been married for 5 years, which, in Hollywood years, is like a golden anniversary. To celebrate, the happy couple headed out for a romantic Mediterranean dinner alone at a Venice Beach, Calif, restaurant this week, reports JustJared.com.
You know how men are supposed to be from Mars and women from Venus? Well, in a cross-cultural relationship, men are from an asteroid shooting past Mars and women are from a previously undetected moon circling Venus.
The day stretched out before us, longer than we could really understand. It was just the two of us, no kids, for the first time since our second child was born. It was also our fifth anniversary, and the day before the Crown Princess of Sweden was to be married. Suddenly, it was like none of the big life transitions had ever happened. We were still just the boy and girl who met as peace volunteers in Croatia and got engaged backpacking in Thailand.
