Today marks our fifth year of being hitched. FIVE YEARS. The mister and I have agreed that five is pretty significant, that it's like Really For Real now or something. That the past four years have just been practice, or playing house or something. Five is like...whoa...you're totally married.
I wondered what the fifth anniversary was, in terms of gifting. Some girls at work had no clue since they are still either so young that marriage is a funny joke to them or so old that they barely had the energy to kiss the cheek of their spouse on year 69 let alone celebrate the way you'd expect to on the year 69. Another girl thought it might be tin foil, which was good, I know how to make some pretty cool tin foil animals.
Alas, the gods frowned down upon me and I found out that year five is indeed the year of....wood. Seriously. Wood.
I had no clue about what to get him that involved wood, and I already used the no-fail gift of lingerie for Father's Day, so I ended up having a nice silver business card holder engraved with some sweet words about the future instead. Not exactly practical, or WOODEN, but still nice.
Then I open my gift...and HE TOTALLY SCORED AN AWESOME WOOD GIFT! He showed me up! But that's ok. I'll get him back next year with some awesome tin foil origami. Six is tin foil, I'm sure of it.
This is an awesome wooden plaque:
And this is just so beautiful:
Happy Anniversary, Baby. I know we toasted last night to five more wonderful years at the most but I didn't mean it. I'm in for life.
Good luck with that.
Congrats!! Wishing you many happy years to come!
Posted by: Becky | Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 12:27 AM
Congratulations and Hugs to Both of You. You're gonna catch up to me and PD pretty soon!
Really great post, Ju :-)
Posted by: Mom | Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 01:21 AM
Happy Anniversary! All the best! :o)
Posted by: heathabee | Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM
OH NO I MISSED IT!!! Sorry =( Happy #5 to both of you. (you got wood......he he)
Posted by: Luann | Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Happy 5th anniversary and many happy returns!
Posted by: BuffaloJenn | Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 05:01 PM
What a great guy the Mister is. I figured he would have given you wood. You know, his wood. I'm so sorry I said that.
Posted by: Hazel | Monday, July 14, 2008 at 02:03 PM
Oh wow that's just awesome! Great gifts Mr. JuJu. I'm going on 9 I wonder what that is..
Posted by: Bridget B. | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 09:39 AM
I'm going on 7. Look that up too when you get a chance.
Posted by: Lori | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Here is hoping you got lots of wood for your anniversary.
Posted by: Genuine | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 08:22 PM
I'm really, really late but...happy anniversary!!
Posted by: Chris Cactus | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 01:44 PM
Wow. All the wood jokes have been used up already. Congrats!
Posted by: melissa | Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 10:40 AM
According to the presents we gave for our sixth anniversary this year, six is chinese food, not tin foil.
Posted by: Peeved Michelle | Friday, September 12, 2008 at 01:29 AM
Good words.
Posted by: Maxime | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 04:05 PM