On Friday, Karin and I celebrated our 5th anniversary. I had planned to write a post in honour of both the occasion and my gorgeous bride, but real life did not allow it thanks to time pressures last week. I did start one in which I wanted to talk about all the ways Karin is special to me; but I just kept coming back to one thought…
One of my greatest friends had dated the same girl for almost eight years, with the three of us even backpacking Europe together; but after she decided to move on he was suddenly overrun by women who had been admiring him from afar until then. One day he told me that he had met a girl that planned to go to Ireland in a month just as he was planning, and so they decided to go together. When he got back, he told me they were engaged. When I asked how you could date someone for years without proposing and then suddenly choose one girl that he hadn’t dated any longer than other recent pairings he had made, told me that, “When you meet the right one, you just know”. I didn’t take him seriously at the time, as I had already been in love but had never felt anything like that; but then when I met Karin I “just knew”. I have been happy ever since, and even years later I smile often whenever I think about that special feeling she invokes in me just as strongly now as back then.
Karin and I will be returning to Playa del Carmen, Mexico for our fifth anniversary, delaying our trip until after hurricane season just as we delayed our honeymoon there. While many people take vacations regularly, our budget does not allow it and so we began saving for this trip years ago. We will not be spending an extraordinary amount on the trip itself, but we have also budgeted for a number of new items to take along, most of which I will talk about soon. Knowing that we have had this planned for a long time, we did not get anniversary presents for each other, and I had told Karin not to buy me a birthday present last month. Karin’s birthday will be in Mexico.
So what did we do to actually mark the occasion? We were together. This might not seem like much, as we do most things together; but I made sure to leave the homework alone and stayed away from blogging so that I could pay even more attention to the most important person in my life. I came home early from work on Friday and we went to the bluStone restaurant for dinner. We spent the rest of the weekend just “hanging out”, for if you truly with your perfect match then you will never tire of being with the one you love even if you are not doing anything.
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