Celebrating 40 Years

Good Morning! I have been looking forward to this post for a  few weeks.  On Monday, June 6th, Hubby and I will celebrate 40 years of marriage.  Oh, my goodness, that is really a l-o-n-g time isn't it? And, hey, I'm not even old enough to have been married that long.  Do you hear me? ~smile~

We met in the summer of 1965, right here in Bastrop, LA. and I told my parents after I met him, that one day I would marry him.  Now, that comment didn't give them much thought as I was a mere 12 year old.  Yep, that's right!  Tommy was 18 at the time and that was a hep of age difference at the time, but that gap seemed to narrow as I got older. ~wink~  

 Tommy would tell you that he waited for me to grow up and for him to get a college education and then he came all the way to Virginia to ask me to marry him. (My Dad's ministry had taken us to Virginia by this time.) I was 18 at this time (Tommy was 24) and, with my parents blessing, I said, yes. Did I have any idea what I was doing?  Did we have any idea what we were doing?  The answer would be NO, didn't have a clue.  But, we did as most other couples do, we figured it out as we went along.  And, apparently we figured it out pretty good since we are here to tell about it 40 years later.  

I have left out all the details of our courtship, because it's just wayyyyyyyy too much to tell.  Well, truth be known, there really wasn't much of a courtship.  It's really quite scary when I think back about the whole situation.  But, we both knew that we were God's choice for each other and nothing else really mattered.

Some of my favorite things about these past 40 years of marriage are:

1- Being married to a man with the patience of Job - other wise he would not have ever survived being married to me. ~giggle~  

2- Sharing my life with a man who knows Jesus as his Savior and always desires that we live our lives accordingly 

3- Having a husband that took being a Daddy very seriously and always had time for his children and always looked for opportunities to make memories with them

4 -Knowing that we took the vow of "till death do us part" with utmost seriousness

5 - Watching Tommy with our Grans and knowing that he is in "his moment" whenever he is with them

6 - Seeing how our very, very different personalities have meshed over the years


Life has been good to us these past 40 years.  No, it hasn't always been easy, but most things in life aren't.  Marriage takes a whole lot of work and we have definitely worked as we have journeyed along.  And, we'll keep on working and making wonderful memories for the next 40 years ~grin~


I thought you gals would get a "kick" out of seeing how we have evolved over the years.  I had such fun digging through the photos and seeing all of our "various looks" these past 40 years.  Our children even looked at our wedding pictures one time and said, "what did you two see in each other?"  Wow! they must have thought we were pretty pitiful looking. ~chuckle~  And, hey, they were right, but I'm certain that we both thought each other was the best looking "thing" we'd ever laid our eyes on.  After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~smile~

 

Here's to 40 more..............