Today, Anita and I are celebrating our 32nd wedding anniversary.
Or, to put it another way, that’s:
- 1,669 weeks
- 11,688 days
- 280,512 hours
- 16,830,720 minutes
- 1,009,843,200 seconds
Anniversaries can’t just be measured in time, though:
- 2 apartments and 6 houses in 5 cities in 4 states
- 4 kids, 4 years apart
- 2 grandchildren (and counting?)
- 26 years of public school (and PTA meetings! And fund-raisers! And Science Projects! And…)
- 36 years of children’s’ sports (4 kids, multiple sports, multiple seasons – you do the math)
- 7 sets of stitches in one kid before he was 6; and 3 for all the others combined
- 1 broken leg
- 1 broken wrist
- 1 torn ACL
- 3, 13 year-old trips with our kids (one unnamed son has yet to redeem his!)
- 32 anniversary dates – dinners, movies, concerts, plays, trips – all great experiences (even #10, which took a few hours for the conversation to thaw…)
- 2 dogs
- 10 cars (that doesn’t count cars kids got after they moved out)
- 1 artificial Christmas tree
- 16 different jobs (for the two of us) in 6 different industries
- 5 phone numbers (till cell phones came along, to which we added 6 more numbers)
- 5 place settings of our original dishes (out of 14 to start with)
- 2,652 books (give or take a few)
- 32 years worth of National Geographic magazines (plus a few dozen pre-1979 years picked up at a yard sale
- 4 high school graduations
- 2 college graduations to date
- 1 Disney World trip
- A few tears
- Lots of laughter
- Good friends, near and far
- Treasured memories
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways…
