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Archive for December 16th, 2008

At 8:00 PM tonight my husband and I have officially been married for forty-one years.

Where has all the time gone? When did we each get old? Other than a few aches and pains neither of us really feels old.

We remember with loving fondness the summer we fell in love. We remember with love the times we found out we were going to be parents for the first, second (baby lost through miscarriage) and third times.

Special memories are those of the days we met our children for the first time and then watched them grow.

We gave our daughter away in marriage to a wonderful man and several months later our son married a wonderful woman.

They have each given us a grandson and a granddaughter. We see our daughter’s children every day because they live about ten minutes from our house.

Our son and his family live in Irving, TX, and we don’t get to see them as often. This past summer we didn’t go out because their daughter was invited to spend the summer with her other grandparents.

Next year we would like to take our older grandchildren on a learning trip to Washington DC to see the houses of Congress and all the memorials, plus the White House if we can get tickets to it.

Our son’s children’s great-grandparents are buried at Arlington National Cemetery and she was alive until after they were both born. We would, of course, take them to visit that gravesite.

Forty-one years. My husband’s family have all died; his mother, his brother and then his father. Most of the ones I loved the most when I was growing up are also gone, so now we are the patriarch and matriarch of our own little dynasty.

Who knows what will come of it? The name is carried on and will be if Patrick has a son. The children are all very bright and have good futures ahead of them. My fondest hope and prayer is that they will all do something that serves the Lord in a way that would make Him pleased.

Here’s looking forward to as many more years as the Lord will allow.

I love you more today, Don, than the day we were married. Thank you for putting up with me.

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