Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that anniversaries aren't just for romance. Sure, you
Speaker 1: want to mark the date that you met or married
Speaker 1: your partner, but you can celebrate other special, personal or
Speaker 1: professional dates too. Doing so is a great way to
Speaker 1: show that something is important and to mark how far
Speaker 1: you've come. My family moved into our new house in
Speaker 1: early January of twenty twenty two. This was after a
Speaker 1: year long renovation project, so we had anticipated this move
Speaker 1: for a long time. I remember that first night in
Speaker 1: the new house as being kind of challenging. Most of
Speaker 1: our furniture wasn't here yet, but it was the start
Speaker 1: of a new chapter in our lives. We ate pizza
Speaker 1: on the floor and got to know the new place.
Speaker 1: I now note the anniversary every year, how much the
Speaker 1: house has changed, and how we've made memories here too.
Speaker 1: Life features lots of anniversaries. This April, I will be
Speaker 1: celebrating nine years of tracking my time, so I plan
Speaker 1: to note a time tracking anniversary. I will record my
Speaker 1: celebration and my time log. Of course, I bet you
Speaker 1: can recall lots of non romantic anniversaries too, perhaps when
Speaker 1: you started running on Sunday mornings with your exercise buddy,
Speaker 1: or when you drank your last diet coke before going
Speaker 1: soda free. Every year, there's the anniversary of the date
Speaker 1: you closed on your new home, when you met your
Speaker 1: best friend, or got your cat. All these moments are
Speaker 1: worthy of celebration. While you probably remember the actual date
Speaker 1: you got married, you may be a bit fuzzier on
Speaker 1: other anniversaries, but with some work, you can probably figure
Speaker 1: out the specific date that important things started. For instance,
Speaker 1: you may know that your first Sunday morning run with
Speaker 1: your running buddy was the first Sunday of twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: You can easily figure out that date with an online calendar.
Speaker 1: Maybe your first soda free day was ash Wednesday of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. That is an easy calendar find as well.
Speaker 1: Plenty of paperwork will tell you the date you closed
Speaker 1: on your home. Other moments, though, may be murkier. You
Speaker 1: may know you met your best friend at a yoga
Speaker 1: class sometime in May of twenty eighteen, or that you
Speaker 1: got your cat on a snowy day on New Years
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, but you may not know exactly when,
Speaker 1: and that is okay. Just choose an approximate date to
Speaker 1: mark the anniversary. No one is fact checking you. If
Speaker 1: you would like to declare that January fifth is your
Speaker 1: cat's homecoming anniversary, you can go ahead and mark that
Speaker 1: and celebrate it with certainty. Now, of course, once we
Speaker 1: are celebrating lots of anniversaries, friendships, job milestones, pets, moving habits.
Speaker 1: The individual celebrations probably aren't going to be huge, but
Speaker 1: it's nice to do a little something. Perhaps in keeping
Speaker 1: with the theme of the event you are celebrating. You
Speaker 1: and your running buddy could reenact your first run, same
Speaker 1: length and location, or just go out for coffee after
Speaker 1: the run nearest your anniversary to celebrate. Give your friend
Speaker 1: a card to celebrate the anniversary of meeting, saying how
Speaker 1: much she means to you. You can mark years in
Speaker 1: a home by planting something new. Life happens continuously. It
Speaker 1: keeps passing, whether we think about it or not. Noting
Speaker 1: anniversaries helps us pause and reflect. We can honor time
Speaker 1: as it passes all the things we have stuck with,
Speaker 1: and that helps shape who we are. Our romantic relationships
Speaker 1: shape us, of course, But so do many other things.
Speaker 1: It's good to celebrate all of it. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast
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