This week we will celebrate our sixth anniversary! Each year we take turns planning the activities – last year was my turn, so this year it’s up to Kate.
I’m excited to see what she has planned. I’m also excited to see what I decide to give her for a gift. According to tradition, the appropriate gift for a sixth wedding anniversary is iron. Not “an iron”, just “iron.” The modern traditional gift is a wooden object. It looks like I should probably get Kate a shovel with a wooden handle for a gift – that should satisfy both the traditional and modern traditional requirements of wood and iron. 
Because Kate is in charge, I’m not sure what we’ll be doing. I do know, however, what we will not be doing:
Publicly professing our love to each other via Facebook while referring to each other as “babe” and writing up sappy blurbs with lots of exclamation points bragging to the world about how this has been the best six years of our lives. The truth is it has been the best six years of our lives and we love each other dearly – so much so, in fact, that we tell each other in person. Call us old fashioned, but we actually skip right over the Facebook wall and tell each other face to face.
Let’s take a quick poll – and be honest: raise your hand if you like to read posts on Facebook that say things like “Happy Anniversary Babe!!!!!! You’re the best wife EVER!!!!!”
See? Not a single hand went up. Nobody likes to read that stuff. Nobody cares what sort of nicknames people have for each other – babe, snookems, whatever.
I also instantly disagree whenever I read on Facebook that someone has the “best husband ever” – because I am the best husband ever.
I think a more appropriate Facebook post might be something like “Celebrating our 6th anniversary!” or something to that effect.
One last thing while I’m on the topic of Facebook – I’m not going to feed your farm animals and I will not be a part of your mafia – at least not on Facebook. However, both of those things do sound exciting and I would be more than happy to offer my services for either those adventures in the real world if you really need the help.
At any rate, I’m looking forward to our anniversary this week – let’s keep our fingers crossed that the shovel goes over well. If any of you have any other gift ideas that involve iron and wood let me know in the comments.
