Anniversaries

This weekend Greg and I will have been married for 3 years. Technically, our anniversary is the 28th, but since we got married Memorial Day weekend, we tend to celebrate on the weekend. Tonight we exchanged gifts and went to Target. We have friends and family members who feel like anniversaries must be celebrated with expensive jewelry or vacations. Maybe it's because we've moved a lot since we got married or that we really wanted to buy a house or that I've given up a career to go to grad school, but we haven't ever celebrated our anniversary in that way. Instead we buy furniture--last year we bought a grill for the new house and this year we bought patio furniture. To put that in context, for Christmas we bought a dining room suit from IKEA.

Even our honeymoon was rather low profile. We spent a long weekend in Eureka Springs at the Cliff Cottage and then both went back to work. Sometimes, I wish that we celebrated with trips, but I can walk through our house and identify the artifacts of each anniversary, and they are things we use almost every day.