Every year my husband and I celebrate our wedding anniversary by reading our wedding vows to each other. We usually walk around the monuments by the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., and find a quiet place to sit. This year, with the government shutdown and the rain, we read our vows at home.
And, with the new addition of the bambino in our family, we've added to the tradition. Since the pregnancy, we've been slowly writing a list of wishes for our son. While it rained outside this morning, we sat together and read both our vows and the growing list to our growing son.
Here are some of my favorite lines from Our Wishes for You: Things to Learn:
Your great great Aunt Dora’s chocolate cookie recipe.
How to twirl linguine on your fork.
How to follow a hiking trail and read a road map.
How to find and read books that will create memories.
How to read between the lines.
How to merge onto a highway.
How to drive stick (your father will have to do that.)
That there’s an order in which to watch the Star Wars Saga.
How, as Nancy Ladd said, “to become ever more completely yourself.”
For more love poems, you might read the background of one of the poems from my poetry book, Unrest. You might also click through to read a recently published poem to my husband. Happy anniversary, love!
