Today, Anita and I are celebrating our 44th wedding anniversary.
Or, to put it another way, that’s:
- 2,296 weeks
- 16,072 days
- 385,728 hours
- 23,143,680 minutes
- 1,388,620,800 seconds
Anniversaries can’t just be measured in time…
- 2 apartments and 5 houses in 5 cities in 4 states for the first 16 years, then…
- 1 house for the next 28 years (but now it looks very little on the inside like then!)
- 4 kids, 4 years apart
- 3 daughters-in law and 1 son-in-law
- 9 grandchildren
- 26 years of public school (and PTA meetings! And fund-raisers! And science projects! And field trips! 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 – different kid
- 1 broken wrist – different kid
- 1 torn ACL and meniscus – different kid
- 3, 13 year-old trips with our kids (one unnamed son never redeemed his!)
- 44 anniversary dates – dinners, movies, concerts, plays, trips – all great experiences (even #10, which took a few hours for the conversation to thaw…)
- 2 dogs
- 12 cars
- 39 fresh-cut Christmas trees (including the first, a very-Charlie Brown one), then…
- 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)
- 4 place settings of our original everyday dishes (out of 14 to start with)
- 4,943 books (give or take a few)
- 4 high school graduations
- 3 college graduations
- 1 master’s graduation
- 1 entire family Disney World trip
- 4 couple’s Disney World trips
- 1 Disney Cruise
- A few tears
- Lots of laughter
- Good friends, near and far
- Treasured memories
- Adventures around every corner
How do I love thee?
27gen.com 