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Should I plan something representing our life, either a quilt or mixed media collage?  The more I think of it, the more it seems a possibility.

What should I include?  Where will I research?

• Photos from engagement and wedding
• Reminiscenses of Jim’s years as an Air Force pilot and me a military wife.
• Owning airplanes and Jim’s cross-country trip in a bi-plane
• The arrival of our daughter and her growing up years
• Pack trips to the Gros Ventre Mountains of Wyoming with her
• Beth’s marriage
• The arrival of our grandchildren
• My mother’s Alzheimer’s years and our family involvement with her journey
• My recovery from a broken back after an accident
• Bits from my writing and quilting careers
• Our years now and what we’re looking forward to

What would you quilt or sketch for your life? You don’t have to be our age.  You can use your growing up years, school years, marriage, children’s youth, travels, careers.  Take singular events or compile them into a collage of  many adventures.

Have you done this already?

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Can You Quilt or Collage Your Life?

Some couples celebrate anniversaries while they are dating.  There seem to be a lot of variations in these anniversaries and I have no idea what the right answers are for determining these.  How often do you celebrate?  It could be every week, month, year?  And even more importantly, how do you decide on your official day to celebrate?  Is it the first meeting, date, kiss, night you slept together, or day you decided to be exclusive?

There are are really so many possible answers to all of these questions and infinite options.  It all seems to be very personalized for each couple.  Everyone has a little story about the day that they pick as their anniversary and they get to tell the story everytime they celebrate on their special day (so let’s hope that it’s more interesting than “the night we sealed the deal”).

So I’ve come to my decision about what I think about dating anniversaries:  they are a day to put aside to celebrate the romance in a relationship.

It is not official like a wedding anniversary, so there is no need to worry about cards or gifts for other people.  The dating anniversary is completely insular to the couple.  It is a day that couples program to fit what they agree upon in their relationship and they come together for a specific moment of romance.

If this is not something that you need or are looking for in a relationship, then you will probably find that you are one of the couples who doesn’t celebrate dating anniversaries.  If you are looking to add a little romance reminder into your dating relationship, then this is a great place to find it.

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Do You Celebrate Dating Anniversaries?

But I was holding out for that perfect kind of love. That one you know in an instant is real and meant to be. When I met Rick, I felt that completeness pour over me like warm milk. He felt it too. A month after we started dating, we laid in each other’s arms and agreed we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. Then Rick put on his Mr. Sensible hat and said we probably should date a year or so before we got engaged, just because. He had been through a previous engagement with the devil’s spawn that, had he actually married, would have ended in his imprisonment, he claims.

Twelve years ago today we were married. I could hardly stop kissing him that day and every day since. I love him and need him. Without him I’m worthless. I want to celebrate 100 anniversaries together, sitting side-by-side in the old-folks’ home with Truman spoon-feeding us chocolate cake and holding a glass of wine to our lips, because there had better be wine. I want us to smile at our son’s successes in life, and watch as his children’s children run rampant through the nursing home. And I will remember times like these, when we wondered if our son would ever sit still long enough to even get an education or learn to eat without getting food on his shirt. And then I will reach over and grab my husband’s warm hand, still basking in the glow of our lovely legacies, and we will slowly walk into the light together.

Happy anniversary, Sugar Bear.

(photo, JWJourney)

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The Absolute Love of My Life

I’ve known, respected, admired and loved you longer than any person in my life. I am astonished at your accomplishments and I am awed by your integrity.

Thank you for London, Paris, Rome, Dublin and Spaaain! Thank you for LBI, thank you for Bruce, thank you for my dining room window, thank you for Chirstmas, thank you for home and mostly,

Thank You For You!
Happy Anniversary Sweetheart!

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A Wedding Anniversary Note of Thanks