Happy 25th Anniversary
May 28, 2007
Calvin often says, “Put THAT in your blog” after he says something profound (or dim-witted), mimicking the man on the movie Dances with Wolves that tells Kevin Costner to “Put THAT in your book” whenever he does something crude or disgusting. This morning I asked Calvin to tell me five things he loves about our marriage so I could “put THAT in my blog”. Here is the list we compiled:
1. Our marriage provides us with rich companionship. We are great friends and don’t like to be apart.
2. Our marriage created a wonderful family. Our children are an integral part of our relationship and we both enjoy being with them, helping them, teaching them and learning from them.
3. We have lots of common interests (we’re homebodies, our kids, our core value system and beliefs, gardening, history, working outside together, love for country, cooking, traveling, etc.). But, we also have separate interests (he likes to make longbows and blackpowder guns and raise quail, I like to work on NJP and scrapbook and putter) that we encourage each other to pursue.
4. Our marriage is resilient. It reminds me of a spider web, it’s incredibly delicate and fragile and yet remarkably strong and durable at the same time. One thing we love about our marriage is that it has survived the hits.
5. Our marriage is still growing and changing. It’s not the same marriage we started out with, nor even the same marriage of five years ago. We like that it grows and changes as we mature.
