Eric asked a good question the other day. Why do we only celebrate our marriage anniversary? Isn't the day we began dating just as important...without it, we wouldn't be together! (Obviously the answer is: you only marry once and you date and dump more than that prior to.) Still, let's just call it the "silent" anniversary.
Do you remember where you were when you started dating? Not really your first date, but the day you realized you actually wanted it to go somewhere?
Eric and I just had our silent anniversary 2 days ago. It's fairly easy to remember because it was Mother's Day 2005. We went to church in North Las Vegas with a couple I worked with as a missionary. We decided to make them a nice dinner (poor husband worked nights and forgot about it being Mother's Day, so it was also our intent to keep him from going out on the Sabbath to purchase anything). We ended up charcoaling a few steaks but inventing a great potato-packet type dinner instead. The time we spent one-on-one in service for these other people put the icing on the dating cake and things progressed from there. We watched a movie together (The Work and the Glory part I) that evening and we both knew we wanted more. Eric made his "big" move (he touched my hair) and here we are four years, two kids, and a mortgage later.
So, happy Mother's Day to all of you moms, but happy silent anniversary to you, Eric!
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