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Anniversary

Today is our anniversary. Vince and I aren’t going out these days because Covid in our area is crazy. I told him I’d be happy if we pizza delivered from Little Caesar’s tomorrow. I love their pizza and he doesn’t like it so it’s a sacrifice for him to get it from there. Homemade is so much better but when Vince gets pizza out, he always gets two and we have leftovers for days. And, sometimes it’s just nice not to cook. We would have done it today but we had leftovers to eat, and I wanted to make something for the neighbor’s birthday so I sent them the eggplant.

I was thinking, and I know all of us who have been married for a while can look back and tons of memories flash before our eyes. When I think about Chad and his teen years . . I don’t even know why Vince stayed. Heck, the washing machine we had back then wasn’t even hard to operate. 🙂

At the times they were happening, the moves were sometimes frustrating and stressful but, looking back, they were so fun.

Vince has always gone along with my crazy ideas, though sometimes there were great and loud discussions:

  • He’s a cute kitty. Can we keep him?
  • Do we really have 100 chickens?
  • I want a big garden .. how about 100 x 100?
  • A little house in town would be so convenient!
  • I think I want a longarm.

Poor Vince. It’s probably a good thing I like to cook because I don’t have a lot of redeeming qualities . . oh, and I know how to work the washing machine! 🙂

Things haven’t always been easy. It hasn’t always been a cakewalk. I’m glad we worked through problems, worked through our differences. I’m sure, even in these “Golden Years”, we’ll butt heads now and then but that makes us stronger, right?

We have a good life together and I can’t imagine life without Vince.

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  3. Happy Anniversary. (We celebrate our anniversary tomorrow). Not always easy but worth it.

  4. Happy Anniversary! One week from today my husband and I will celebrate 51 years married. You are correct there have been some tough times but also some good times with lots of laughter.

  6. Happy Anniversary!! Glad you’re still good with getting married to Vince!! 🙂 That’s always a plus! I’d love Little Caesar’s too, but Bill get’s terrible indigestion from it. I could almost live on it….but not gonna happen. 🙂 We all have to make sacrifices….

    • We do all have to make sacrifices but when we’re both making them and there’s a happy home, it doesn’t seem like sacrifices at all.

  7. Happy anniversary to you and Vince. Enjoy the pizza and the dance that marriage has us “long timers” doing.

  8. Happy Anniversary!

    Wouldn’t it be dull if you never butted heads? You’d have to wonder if you were interacting. Also you made me laugh with the “washing machine was easy to operate” remark! (Just an aside: my husband thought we wanted to arrange things around the agitator so they covered maximum length. Good way to get things tangled!)

    • Oh, my goodness. MEN! I want to ask Vince to get the clothes out of the washer and put them in the dryer just so he can see the mess it makes if they aren’t placed correctly. I don’t dare because he’ll probably be asking for a machine without an agitator and I never want to do that again.

  10. Happy Anniversary to you both. Bob tells people I married him for his washer & dryer. LOL

  13. Happy anniversary! I can’t imagine life without Vince stories 😉

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