Meeting in the Middle

Today Charles and I celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary. For the most part, they have been laid-back celebrations that involved watching "When Harry Met Sally", the movie that brought us together, cooking lots of seafood while drinking wine and listening to some of our favorite and memorable songs and reliving the highs and lows of years past and predicting what the next year will bring. It's a tradition that has become the soundtrack to our lives. Well, until we had children. Now of course, we never know what to expect when our anniversary rolls around.

The post-children years have been more chaotic, and quiet moments are harder to come by, but we still take an hour or so to celebrate, to have our "remember when" conversations and enjoy the places we've gone and the way that our lives together have turned out.

This year of course, will be remembered for BW's adventures in cliff diving. We are both tired and worn out from the adventure and the late nights of helping BW try and find a comfortable position to sleep in, that I suspect that as soon as the children go to bed, we'll settle in, watch a movie and continue our conversation.

After all, we have 17 years of "remember whens" to review, and countless more to plan for.