How Did we Just Celebrate our 29th Anniversary When I'm Not Even That Old! :0)

Well, I AM old enough to have been married that long...I just don't feel that old! I can remember worrying about the 50% divorce rate before Randy and I married. That number just seemed so dismal and discouraging. What 29 years have taught me is that marriage, like everything else we do, is a choice. There are days in any marriage when you don't feel like being married, you don't feel like loving that other person, you just don't feel much of anything. But...the great news is that those moments pass and the longer you choose to love even on the hard days, the fewer hard days you seem to have.



When we were in high school, Randy was the quarterback of the football team, and I was a half-hearted tennis player whose paths really never crossed. The week after my junior year (his senior year) ended, I heard that he might be interested in dating me. Wow! I guess I missed the rest of the story - I was just one on a long list he wanted to date. :0) I started driving by his house, he started driving by mine, he finally asked me on a date, and 31 years later.....



Our first date probably should have been our last. We grew up in a very small town with very little to do and very few places to go on a date. The 2 choices were the movie theater and the drive-in. (Yes, they still had those 31 years ago!) I don't even remember what was showing at the regular theater, but it must have been really awful, because we chose to go to the drive-in and see a new movie called "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Guys, if you ever want a girl to sit on your lap on the first date, just take her to a very scary movie at a drive-in. I had apparently led a very sheltered life before that movie - I was terrified.



Somehow we moved past that memorable first date to many more. Two and a half years later we were married and moved into the smallest efficiency apartment ever built. I had to sit on the bed just to have enough room to open the dresser drawers. Fortunately, we didn't stay there long. I found a cute, new duplex and we began our tradition of moving frequently :0)



I am thankful every day that I married this sweet man. What a wonderful husband and father he is. I am blessed!