Today is our wedding anniversary - our 54th, to be exact. It sounds like a very long time, but those years seemed to have rolled by quickly when we look backward from this viewpoint.
It has been a good marriage and a happy life. Of course, we have had our tough times and our challenges, but we have always faced them together and with love.
There have also been a lot of laughs and some really good stories - some I cannot tell.
We have never been real big on celebrating anniversaries. It is usually like by evening on the day it dawns on us that it is our anniversary. So we go out to eat to celebrate - just like we do every day. I choose to believe that our whole life is one big celebration, not that we forget to celebrate anniversaries.
We knew that we each had other things to do today - Don met Chuck for their usual Wednesday afternoon watching the horse races on simulcast. Sometimes they even place a bet, or rather Don places the bets. Chuck has a time getting in and out of chairs. I was having lunch with the Menta ladies club, just as we do twice a month. Later Don mowed yards and I checked the E mails, then we had carry-in chicken dinners, spent an hour at the casino, and visited Cheryl at her evening job in the garden shop. Yeh, it was a good celebration, pretty much like all our days.
We did take a little road trip yesterday down to Cambridge City to visit the antique mall where we used to have a booth. Then we ate lunch at one of our favortie lunch spots in Cambridge City, the Lakeview. We said it was a pre-anniversary trip because we knew we would be busy today. I'm just saying - we aren't big on celebrating. I did bake a coffee cake to leave on the kitchen counter for breakfast as is our custom on special days. This always prompts Don to make an early morning trip to the store to buy a card - which he did this morning. It WAS a very sweet card.
Once, many years ago, Don said that we would go to Hawaii on our 25th anniversary. Here it is our 54th, and I think it is safe to say that I have never been out of Indiana on any of our anniversaries. One year we totally forgot the date. We were in Certerville helping Rod move. The temperatures were in the 90's, we were very very tired, hot, and dirty. We were driving home early evening when it suddenly dawned on us that it was our anniversary. So we stopped in Losantville, population
maybe 100, and had supper at the Blue Moon Cafe. Not Hawaii, but maybe the most exotic of spots in Losantville.
Well, anyway, we figure that it is all that other important stuff that you do for each other on the other 364 days that really matters. So Happy Anniversary, Honey, I think this marriage may last.
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