Anniversary

This moning Seb called me back to say "happy birthday" and I started laughing. He always gets that a little confused. In French you say "bonne anniversaire" for both birthdays and anniversaries.

We´ve been married eight years now. Eight years, two kids, one crazy house, lots of moves all over France and now the world.

Tonight we will stay home and pour some wine together, play with our kids and eat some sushi.* We´ll reminisce about he past and talk excitedly about our future. We´ll remind each other that we want to finish our house with stone steps and a bedroom loft that looks over the lake, how we want to travel to Japan one day and and how we want to have a sailboat one day to cross Lac Léman with, but mostly to sit on in the evenings and take an apéro while we watch the tourists go by.

We have a lot of dreams. So far we´ve seen a lot of them come true together. "We are a good team" as Seb often says.

So he´s right in his quirky, cute French way--Happy Birthday to us, and many more bien sûr.


*well at least until our Spanish lesson starts a nine o´clock
**the picture was taken by us this December at Mont St. Michel in Normandie not far from my in-law´s. Seb has been promising to take me there for ten years and he finally lived up to his promise.