life as we make it

On our sixth wedding anniversary, Tom and I are not in some exotic place in the Caribbean, unlike most of our other anniversary celebrations, but it wasn’t any less special.

We started our Saturday morning with a hefty breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast and fried rice. Of course, by then, Tom has already raked our tulip garden plot (hey i take some credit in the design and the planting that we did in the fall). They are all happily budding. By lunchtime, we have productively re-organized our basement with our newly built shelves.

Not planning a road trip, we hopped from one-town to another as we try to enjoy a sunny Saturday afternoon: lunch at Upper Crust at Moody Street in Waltham; window shopping at Bloomingdale’s at Chestnut Hill and finally, a dinner take-out at Viva Mi Arepa in West Roxbury. Their beef empanadas and the slow-cooked melt-in-your-mouth roast pork was well worth the travel.

We ate our candle-lit dinner as we celebrate earth-hour, with red wine and table-talk. We were even joined in by my family in the celebration on an overseas phone call.

Finally on the day of our anniversary, after mass, we treated ourselves to an IHOP breakfast. (no cooking, no cleaning-up! just the way i like it)