Today, Anita and I are celebrating our 32^nd 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…