T's got a new kipa

Finished his new kipa earlier this week, just in time for his first exam as a grad student. Which he passed of course! Totally because of the kipa, I know! (hihi!)

(Please excuse the bad photo - it is really hard to get a good photo of this kipa. I deleted about 50 of them - and this was the best of the lot!)

Second anniversary is cotton year, or in other words: kipa year. Today we went out to celebrate our monthiversary - we got married on the 4th of September, and so we try to always do something special on the 4th of every month. It is our feeble attempt at remembering that we have to work at love, passion and friendship. Living together, sharing house, bills and responsibility is not enough. We want to stay in this relationship all the way, and we work hard to make sure that that will happen. We instituted the monthiversary dates right away, and we've been pretty successful at managing to take the time. We don't always do fancy stuff, that is not the essence. The essence is the time and thought that we want to do something nice together. Sometimes that can be to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and go for a picnic after work together, other times we rent a movie and watch it together. Mostly it is our time to be together, acknowledge one another, listen and share with each other, just being together. Today though we went all out, and went to one of our favourite places and had a lovely dinner. It was such a treat. We don't normally go out to eat, so this was really special. The atmosphere was lovely, the food was great and the company inspirational! The perfect end to a hectic week!