Arizona was really fun. I guess we should really cherish the times we get to spend together as a family. Our wonderful girls will not alwyas be able to vacation with us. I am quite certain you will always try to have us all together, but one day they will have families of their own. Who knows, I could be wrong.
However, this post is really all about us. About our 19 years together as a married couple. 19 years! That is a huge accomplishment for us both. I know we say it every year but it still rings true. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE thought we would make it 19 weeks or 19 months. And here we stand after 19 years together. Still the envy of our friends and just about anyone we meet.
While the band The Baby's were not known for their lyrics (they were kind of bubble gummy), they do have a fitting line for us from the song "Every Time I Think of You". In the song he says "....Cause people say our love affair will never last / but a love like ours will never pass / And baby they were wrong not knowing how our love would grow....". I guess it always seemed like a silly lyric before now, but it is really true for us. We have made it through so much on basically one thing. This amazing, ever growing, life lasting love affair with each other. A love that as the song ends "will never pass".
I can't imagine how other couples can make it through their marriages/relationships without what we have. How do they not want to hold each others hands? How can they not long for a soft loving kiss? How can they not want that extra 5 minutes of snuggle time in the morning? Why are we always the only ones holding hands across a table in a restaurant? They seem like such simple things. So easy to take for granted. But I really feel like it is those little tiny gestures that make our love such a grand gesture and so powerful.
There are other things that even we take for granted that seem so incredibly remote to other couples. For example, I look at you and still see the most beautiful woman in the world. In fact you just seem to get prettier and prettier all the time. I still notice little things about the way you look that amaze me so much. I only recently (in the past year or so) noticed that your eyes change colors ever so slightly. I find new things to enjoy about your smile (like he said in that movie "my wife has 600 different smiles and every one can light up your life"). Sometimes your smile looks so childishly innocent I was to kiss you top of your head. Sometimes is has a cool sex appeal that makes me want to kiss you all over. Sometimes it just makes me feel happier. You are like a fine wine aging to perfection and I get to benefit from it all the time.
So how can this get any better? How can what is essentially perfect not have reached its peak and have no where to go but down? I have no idea, but maybe worrying about that makes us not fully take this wonderful love for granted. Maybe it is that simple fact that keeps us striving to make it better and better. Maybe that is what eveyrone else is missing in their relationship. Maybe that is the "thing" we discovered that no one else has figured out. I think knowing that WE can always find ways to improve what we have is what sets us apart.
I could list yet another song and a lyric that I think fits, but it might finally push you over the "song edge". But hey this is what the whole "blog" thing was all about right? The song is "The Last Perfect Thing" by Wire Train. I have played it before for you - I know I have. But the title alone reminds me of us. We are truly the "last perfect thing" and as the songs says - "everyday the bell rings and I awake to the last perfect thing".
Happy anniversary my love - I can't wait for the next 100 years with you. And I promise that every day my love grows and grows.
I love you.
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