Happy 19th to us!

Hello August 3rd!!
Today is the anniversary of my wedding day.
Oh, yes....
the day of my wedding.
Not exactly the stuff fairy tales are made of.
If you don't know what I am talking about then refer to My Wedding Day Chapter One,
Chapter Two,
Chapter Three,
Chapter Four,
and finally Chapter Five.
You will hopefully laugh, but you will definitely cringe!!!

We have had so much fun relating this story over and over again to unsuspecting listeners! I think it is best done tag team style with my husband and I filling in the parts of the story we like the best.
I should have taken my wedding day shenanigans as a warning of how real life can be!!
Crazy, filled with mishaps, unpredictable (like the wind), out of tune, and drag you through the dirt wearying.
Man oh man...if that was all there was to it, no one would stay married.

But real life is also filled with sunshine,
and gifts generously given,
and friends to laugh and cry with you,
and family who has to love you,
and contracts signed,
and flowers and tulle and wedding cake,
and catch in your throat joy filled moments of wonder,
and commitments to love another person until parted by death.

Who can stand that much happiness in one day, let alone a lifetime of it?

Marriage can be an insane balance of wind and sunshine.
And that is okay, because one prepares you for the other, while the other helps you survive the one.
Does that even make sense??
Oh, good grief...I have been sitting here typing and backspacing for a good 45 minutes.

I just can't seem to find the words to tell you about how crazy hard maintaining a good marriage is, while on the other hand how amazing it is to have a partner who sustains your life in such a way that defies comprehension.


1 Corinthians 13:4-6
4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous ; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly ; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth

Marriage lasts because we choose to put into practice these very principles.
Both of us!!
Okay, I gotta go. This marriage has also provided me with three children, who make concentration a bit of a stretch.