Remembering Our Vows...

This week my Man and I celebrated 20 years of marriage. We married after we'd known one another for two years and so, as my Man loves to say, we have known each other for over half of our lives. It seems that we were celebrating 17 years together not so very long ago when I posted this...

Happy 17th Anniversary to my Man...

If our marriage was a person, it would be a teenager with car keys. 

If our marriage was a car, it would be a junkyard dweller by now. 

If our union was a house, it would be time for some needed renovations. 

If our marriage was a grandma-crafted quilt, it would just be getting good and soft and maybe a little frayed about the edges. 

If the time marking our togetherness marked instead, the age of a book, that book would not yet be considered a classic. 

If our marriage was a clothes dryer ... well, we'd be on our second one! 

Our marriage is none of these things of course...

our marriage is a marriage...a seventeen year old one. 

A seventeen year old marriage that has, in its lifetime been...

full of faith,

 full of wonder, 

full of trust,

full of expectation,

 full of serious conversations, 

full of growth,

full of belly grabbing laughter, 

tinged at times with...

 stress, 

tears,

 worry and 

apprehension

...but not for too long...

Later we filled it with...

more laughter,

teamwork,

a couple of babies,

lots of diapers,

homeownership,

friendship,

sleeplessness,

new adventures,

old struggles,

new challenges,

a few more babies,

a lot more diapers,

and sprinkled in...

 lessons well learned

and some not so well learned

a wrinkle or two

and some aches (just a few!)

Our marriage has been full of all those things we vowed to one another that winter evening when we were so 

very young,

 and unwrinkled,

 and un-grey, 

and unafraid,

 and oh, so naïve

...all of those things we vowed and THEN some!

I love who our marriage has become over these seventeen years. 

If our marriage was a motorcycle...

I'd be so tickled to be your sidecar!

~All my love...

...and then some~
G