We’ve got something special for you today BMWK family. A guest post by fellow blogger Jelisa who blogs over at …And They Lived Blogging Ever After. If you like what you see here please take a second to visit her site. I think you’ll enjoy what you find.
This morning, the first thing I said to Galen when he opened his eyes was,
“Let’s try to live until we’re at least 94, “˜kay? Because then we’ll have been married for 70 years.”
He gave me one of those “my wife’s a weirdo” / “sure, why not?” chuckles before answering “okay” and drifting back off to sleep.
But I was serious! 🙂
For some reason, I’d woken up with this amazing couple on my mind:
How inspiring is that?
It took me back to the first time I got bitten by the crazy-long marriage bug; it was a few years ago, and Galen and I were still just courting and talking marriage. I must’ve been doing something right, {hehe}, because he took me to meet his family’s oldest, dearest relatives ““ his grandmother’s 92-year-old twin sister, Auntie Irma, and her husband, Uncle Tim.
Who were married over 70 years.
As I sat there on their cute little slip-covered couch politely sipping one of Auntie Irma’s famous daiquiris {I’m not a big drinker, and her daiquiris are STRONG!}, I sat there wondering if my head was spinning from the daiquiri, or from all the history I was surrounded by.
I was sitting in the home of my then-boyfriend {who I absolutely planned to marry}’s 92-year-old Aunt, the identical twin sister of his grandmother, whom he loved and respected dearly”…in the same house Uncle Tim had built for Auntie Irma with his bare hands as he was courting her; the same house they’d spent their entire lives together, loving and living and overcoming in.
I was sitting on the same couch that was in the old photos I was staring at on Auntie Irma’s side table”…photos in which my future mother-in-law smiled in her 70s mini-dresses and Galen was a little boy sitting on his grandpa’s lap. I saw pictures of Irma and Elma {Galen’s sweet grandmother, who I myself came to love and admire before her passing} as identical little girls, their hair in identical bows”…and then as young women, with their gorgeous faces, about to marry the men with whom they’d spend their lives until death. There were photos of all the family members Galen had once told me stories about, and of Auntie Irma and Uncle Tim as newlyweds”…over 70 years ago.
It was beautiful.
I hope to evoke that same beauty when someone stares at the history Galen and I have made together over the years”…especially if we do make it to 70 {or more!}!
Our birthdays are a week apart, and our anniversary is about a month after our birthdays, so”…I figure we can make it. 😉
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