WE MADE IT! So far so good!

Today marks 45 years of being married to the same man! The best part is that we still love and like each other! A blink and the years are gone!  A blink and the bodies have grown older!  A blink, a few stumbles and few 'hit them out of the park' home runs and it is December 19th for the 45th time since we said "I Do!"  Time, that fleeting gift we all seem to take for granted has been measured for me today by this anniversary, where has it gone?

I have some advice to share to those coming behind us in this covenant before God, called marriage.  It is advice I still need to finish the course well (and I hope it is a long course). 

Be grateful!  Even in the rough times find something to be grateful about.
Be gracious!  Always be kinder than you 'feel'.
Be wrong! Pride divides and opinions are just that 'opinions'.  You too are flawed.
Praise and affirm often.  Taking for granted even the smallest of things degrades the tasks of life.
Look for humor in the rough patches of life, humor vs anger makes the situations easier to bare.

Work hard on all of your relationships, when all is said and done they really matter.

I am grateful beyond words for the years I have had with Don.  Many were hard, life is hard.  Many were good, there is an abundance of good to be found in all of our lives!  Many were probably ordinary in the strictest  since of the word but I would not change what life has given to me.

Blessed I am.