28

Sunday, March 12th 1989.

That was the day we got married.  I was 20.  He was 20.  We weren't old enough to drink.  We weren't old enough to rent golf carts on our honeymoon.  We were, however, old enough to get married. Nobody should be old enough to get married at 20. For heaven sake, we were just babies.

The odds were against us.  In today's world the odds seem against marriage period.  Marriage at that age? HA!  Good luck.

We made it against the odds.  We stayed married.  We had two children and we raised them to adulthood.  We survived health scares and old cars and top ramen dinners.  We survived 10 moves and between us we survived 8 different jobs. We survived the dreaded 7 year itch.  We survived family dramas.  Together we mourned the passing of grandparents, fathers (mine) and his beloved sister.

We also celebrated. We celebrated the births of our babies.  We celebrated the weddings of our siblings. We celebrate the births of nieces and nephews.  We celebrated birthdays and holidays. We celebrated our children's graduations. We celebrated our daughters wedding. We celebrated our own anniversaries and we celebrated growing old together.

There are so many things that happened the last 28 years it's hard to recall them all.  These years have been full of happiness, sadness, fear, anger, laughter.  Mostly though, when I really think about it, I realize that these last 28 years have been filled with love. Actually, I didn't really have to think about it at all.

I'm not sure how I got to be so lucky.  I didn't do anything to deserve this life.  I didn't do anything to deserve this man.  I was just a girl who wanted to roller skate with a boy. Little did I know the boy I picked was the right one. Little did I know what a magnificent life we would have.

This ride has been amazing.  I wouldn't want to be on it with anyone else.  I sure hope we don't have to get off anytime soon.  We have so much to look forward to.  We are looking forward to our son graduation college, getting married, having babies.  We are looking forward to our daughter having babies. (soon please!)  We are looking forward to traveling in our trailer and retiring by the beach.

I don't know for sure what the future will hold, but I do hope that whatever happens we are together and holding hands. That and making omelettes.