On celebrating a marriage

June 8th, 2009 MemoriesTags: anniversary, Candice, G, wedding

How curious to see life unfold before you. When you mark the anniversary of your marriage, you suddenly go down memory lane and retell stories that make up 9 years of knowing each other. And then you look at your first offspring and marvel at how God maneuvered everything to bring together this blessed family.

Everything’s so right.

Last week, as G and I went reminiscing, I tried to recall the past anniversary celebrations that we had. It was relatively easy to revive memories from the first two years, but the third year seemed a bit bleak. I worried about it for a while. This morning, however, the fog suddenly cleared and my memory had a good jog once again.

Here’s a rundown of our previous anniversary celebrations:

2006
We had a juicy beefy lunch at Tropical Hut then we drove around the old Imus town proper to check out antiquated pre-war houses. We couldn’t go too far at that time because I just went through a D&C (dilation and curettage) procedure following my miscarriage. G wanted to cheer me up with burgers and old houses )

2007
Once again my condition didn’t allow us to go to a faraway place. I was on second trimester and was on bed rest most of the time. I had a prenatal checkup on the day of our anniversary and actually had to ask my OB-GYNE if I could stay a bit longer in a mall and have lunch. She said I could but I had to stay seated most of the time. We treated ourselves to a huge meal at North Park in Alabang. It was my first time to eat the special North Park siopao. A few months later, I gave birth to a siopao-like baby.

2008
It was our first time to celebrate with the Li’l Dumpling. We thought about celebrating our anniversary with G’s side of the family because they were supposed to migrate to the US that year. Mommy made a sumptuous lunch (as usual). They didn’t get to leave though.

This year we celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary with memories and words that transcend burgers, old houses, and dumplings. We did have a good lunch with our little girl. (She ate a lot of lumpiang shanghai, fried chicken and ice cream.) Somehow an anniversary celebration is never complete without good food and nice gifts. They form part of the blessings that you ought to share with loved ones.

But beyond all these gastronomic delights and fancy things is the pure joy of being together still and staying strong amidst trials, adversities and seemingly erroneous decisions. This, I suppose, is the whole point of celebrating a marriage.

Happy fourth anniversary to my Knight in Shining Barong. Mwayyy.

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