30 years ago today I was dolling myself up to marry the love of my life. I remember it as if it were yesterday - the excitement, the nervousness, the fun, the naiveness of marriage. We were young and so in love. By the grace of God, today we are a wee bit older, but still so in love with one another. Weve been blessed with the births of two beautiful daughters, and added one very special son-in-law. Weve shared the love of several pets and have endured the loss of some of those pets. Weve weathered our share of storms and have been in awe of the beautiful rainbows in our life. Weve watched nephews and nieces come into our lives and have had the joy of watching them grow up. Weve had the fun of sharing parenting stories and marriage tales with our siblings and spouses. Just this morning I shared with my daughter that it is so easy to fall in love with someone. The true challenge is staying in love with someone. Being able to overlook things that irritate one another and give thanks for the countless things that bring one another pure joy and happiness. Life can change in an instant. Over the years, we have survived a serious head injury, cancer, death of a parent, job changes, house moves, sweet girls who became teenage girls (lol), the financial challenge of college years and an extra college degree for me, countless phone calls with our girls as they learned to fly once they left home, our share of arguments, apartment moves over the years that are too numerous to mention for both girls, car troubles, parents who have faced health challenges, the frustration of living too far from home, being a working mom, the list goes on and on. Yet life has always moved forward for us and through it all, our love for one another has grown. Has it been easy? Heavens no! We have no control of what happens to us in each season of our lives, but we have learned to control our choices as to how to respond to those changes - learning that we are each others rock, remembering that we share a life of sacrifice and compromise, joy and sorrow, happiness and tears, love and passion, commitment and determination ON A DAILY BASIS. Being content to look over at your partner and knowing that if you could start over again having to go through all that you have, you would choose the same fella all over again. When there is a storm in my life, or the waters are very still and calm, I have ALWAYS looked to my husband and reached for his hand. He is my guiding light. I have been blessed and pray that my girls will have that same love and loyalty for their husbands and vice versa. Happy Anniversary to us. :)
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:15:50 +0000
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