Because I Cannot Write Songs

Just a quick reminder that on Friday we will be 2 weeks from Christmas Day. Hopefully you have completed you shopping by then!

I saw this morning a news article about a couple celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary. 80 years! Wow. That's 10 decades together. The interesting thing is that the wife referred to him as "her honey" throughout the news clip. After 80 years, she still uses pet names for him. They were also holding hands during the interview, further illustrating that a relationship that successful is made up of not one big thing, but so many little things that become so important over the years.

It got me thinking about what our "little things" are right now and which will still be those little things when we celebrate our 80th anniversary (which by the way is mathematically possible). So I figured a list was in order. Counting backwards....

10). The obvious will be that we too will still be holding hands. It remains one of our more romantic acts.

9). We will still have a laundry list of songs that remind us of each other. I figure by our 80th year we will have whole days worth of songs to commemorate our time together.

8). There will be a million stories that make us laugh about hints we have done in the past. Not the major stories but day to day stuff like who the dog talked about me behind my back or how you startled me at the most opportune times.

7). We will have our stated positions on whatever couches we have owned over the years. The places that made certain your feet always fit nicely across my lap.

6). Stories of our grandchildren. This will rank higher later in our life, but since our girls are VERY far from this stage of their lives, it places in the middle.

5). Stories of our various homes over our lives. The paces we lived. What was good and bad about each. From our first home to the ghetto to our place in the city.

4). This blog. Which might have over 5,000 entries by then. If blogs still even exist in 2069.

3). Stories of the various dumb things I have done over the years (this may be too long to mention by then). Like how I couldn't eat without spilling on myself, how I never got the a/an thing right or how many times I embarrassed myself in public.

2). A million well placed hugs. A million perfect kisses. A million snuggles.

1). Our amazing daughters and their amazing lives and how proud we were of them. How they are one of our greatest accomplishments.

So some of those aren't little things, but it will be 80 years worth of things we have had together. We will tell the stories like they were yesterday. We will hug during the stories and tease each other about how silly we were about things so often.

Maybe we too will be on the news. Who knows?

You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.