Tenth Wedding Anniversary

Today is our 10th wedding anniversary.

We were new parents, I had started chemotheraphy six days prior to this photograph being taken. I was afraid of losing my hair so with much help, we planned a wedding in six short days. I debated about the date as it was the anniversary of my father's death in 1998. I decided to make a new memory on that date, a happy one and it worked like a charm. I don't dread June 21st, I love it. Our son was barely six weeks old on the day we got married. My aunt held him during our ceremony, and Jeff's mom took him overnight so we could go to San Francisco for a little one-night getaway. We went out to dinner two blocks from our hotel in Union Square dressed in our wedding clothes. People thought we were in costume, but we were for real. We are still for real.

I still love our vows, here is an excerpt:

I will laugh with you

and cry with you.

I will love you faithfully

through the best and the worst,

through the difficult and the easy.

What may come

I will always be there.

As I have given you my hand to hold

so I give you my life to keep.

June 21st has a distant bitter taste, wrapped in a joyous celebration with a side of summer solstice this year.