Sometimes I think we spend too much energy on the details and too little on the moment itself. Ahead of our 60th birthday celebration and wedding anniversary, I’ve been running between shopping lists, cucumbers, eggs, and cake layers without really stopping to take it all in.
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The Preparations Took Over
All day yesterday, I kept thinking of things that needed to be done. I sliced cucumbers, prepared tomatoes, made feta cheese cream, mixed a cabbage salad, peeled thirty eggs, and did countless other things in between. On top of that, I cooked dinner.
It was a quick oven-baked sausage dinner, but even something as simple as that can be made a little special with ajvar relish and tzatziki if you ask me.
My daughter came over and baked the cake layers for today. Afterwards, she and her partner stayed for dinner. Cheap food, simple food, but still food. And sometimes that is exactly what is needed.
A 60th Birthday Celebration
This 60th birthday celebration has taken time to plan. There have been shopping lists, preparations, thoughts, and all those little things that keep popping into your head just when you think you are finished.
Then it suddenly hit me while I was sitting here writing.
A 60th Birthday and a Wedding Anniversary on the Same Day
It’s not just a 60th birthday celebration.
It is also our 20th wedding anniversary.
Twenty years of marriage. Twenty-four years together.
I had almost forgotten that among all the cucumbers, eggs, cakes, and shopping lists.
An Ordinary Celebration and an Ordinary Life
A few days from now, nobody will remember whether the grass was freshly cut or whether the salad was served in the right bowl. What we will remember are the laughs, the conversations, and the people who came to celebrate with us.
So the garden can stay exactly as it is. The house can stay exactly as it is. There will still be a celebration. Maybe not something grand or extravagant, just an ordinary birthday celebration and an ordinary wedding anniversary. And perhaps that is exactly how it should be.
Because sometimes “good enough” is exactly what is needed.
Reflection
Maybe life is less about perfect preparations and more about the people we share our days with. Sometimes the most important reasons to celebrate are right in front of us.
Like a 60th birthday celebration that also happens to be twenty years of love and shared life.
We got married on my husband’s birthday so that I would remember our wedding anniversary and how long we had been married. At the time, it seemed like a very smart idea.
Yet here I am, surrounded by cucumbers, eggs, cake layers, and shopping lists, almost forgetting that we are celebrating our anniversary too.
Isn’t it usually the husband who forgets dates like these?
At least that’s what people joke about.
In our home, it sometimes seems to be the other way around.
Although my husband often says I’m more like a guy when it comes to my taste in music, so perhaps that explains it. Or perhaps it is simply a sign that life is full of other things right now.
My husband doesn’t really want to turn 60 at all. He finds it difficult. Meanwhile, I’ve been peeling eggs, slicing cucumbers, and planning the buffet.
Maybe we are not only celebrating sixty years.
Maybe we are celebrating twenty years of marriage, twenty-four years together, our children, our friends, and all the ordinary days in between.
Maybe what we are really celebrating is life and everything that life became.
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