I had an entirely different theme planned for this blog. It was silly and Christmas related, but since Christmas is next week and I will be writing my annual Christmas letter I changed plans. You impacted that change with the surprise card you left me this morning anyway.
It takes just a moment for a different perspective. Over the years we have been together, you have clearly taught me to believe that is possible. This morning was a yet another example. So I derived short poem of sorts for you.
Just a moment
Is all it really takes
Just a moment
To change a smile into something that makes me tingle
Just a moment
For the warmth of your touch to make it all the way to me heart
Just a moment
To have that perfect joke turn bored into happy
Just a moment
To see how truly beautiful you are
Just a moment
To hear that love in your voice
Just a moment
To press my lips against yours
Just a moment
To feel the safety in your arms
Just a moment
To know that we are always on each others mind
Just a moment
To know how much I am loved
Just a moment
To know that a million moments are yet to come
I know our lives are filled with so many of these moments. I know the rest of our lives will have a million more moments to come. I'll never get bored of counting my moments with you. Every moment is just a little better than the last.
You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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.
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.
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