fifteen

Fresh, homegrown raspberries, picked at midnight. This is how you know someone loves you, even after 15 years.Yesterday marked fifteen years that we've been married.

Fifteen years of anything is an accomplishment, and fifteen years of marriage is a major one, but fifteen years since Sal and Brittney became a "we" and an "us" and a "them" has felt like the blink of a second and infinity at the same time, both in the best ways possible.

In fifteen years, you can:

• Complete an earthly rotation 5,479 times.
• Watch The Lord of the Rings Special Extended Edition trilogy on DVD non-stop 11,565 times.
• Drive from Portland to the Oregon Coast and back 45,658 times.
• Brew 21,916 batches of beer.
• Spend 10,958 hours writing.
• Write seven and a half books with a 251,062 word count. Unless you're me, in which case you will write one book with a 251,062 word count and then spend the same amount of time you spent writing it trying to figure out how to reduce it by 20%.
• Vote in four presidential elections. And seriously consider Canadian citizenship after two of them.
• Pack 3,900 bento lunches for work.
• Be halfway through your 30-year mortgage.
• Log 104,101 miles commuting to and from work on your bike.
• Celebrate 30 birthdays for two exceptionally long-lived cats.
• Create 390 weekly art journal pages.
• Say "I love you" 65,748 times.

lunch, Lunchbots Duo:

• hardboiled egg
• wee red potatoes
• steamed broccoli
• carrot sticks (with more underneath the silicone cups)
• honey peanut butter for the carrots
• fresh-picked raspberries from the bushes in our garden

Comments

[Tara]

Midnight picking berries....wow that is true love. One of my favorite movies is "The Princess Bride" and when Buttercup & Humperdink are trying to get married the duke like old person is saying "Twwuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeee Laaaaaaaaaveeeeeeeeee" with that lisp! That's what popped in my mind when I read your post :)

[Sally]

I love this list! Let's do it again!