26 Years is a Small Part of Forever My love

This morning I woke exactly where I wanted to be.  Exactly where I am supposed to be.  Exactly where I have been for the past 26 years.

I can't believe it is 26 years since we got married.  26 years?  How could we have been doing anything for 26 years?  Are we even 26 years old?  I guess judging by the ages of our daughters it must be true.  It sure doesn't feel that way.

Our lives moving forward are going to be different.  For most of the 25 years we have had constant family attention to the girls.  While we have been much better than most couples at finding time for just the two of us, now we have just the two of us.  Our focus is officially changed.  From here on in it is all about just the two of us.  I can't wait.

I hate to do this to you but I am going to use some song lyrics on you for this blog.  I have been waiting for just this day to drop this one into the blog.  It is even a new song.  You'll figure it out pretty quickly, but I am going to grab a few lyrics that truly are how I feel about you and more importantly about us.

"When your looks don't work like they used to before, and I can't sweep you off your feet.  Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?  Will your eyes still smile form your cheeks?"  So easy.  26 years later and I still look at you and think the same thing I have always thought.  "She is so beautiful.  Is today the day she realizes that she is too good for me?"  How does someone like her fall in love with me?  Will I be charming enough today to make her still be in love with me?  And yet everyday I feel more loved by you.  Much to my amazement.

"When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades, And the crowds don't remember my name.  When my hands don't play the strings the same way, I know you will still love me the same."  Our love is endless sweetie.  It will span all time.  It will endure anything.  Good or bad.  No matter how old we grow or how much we change one thing remains constant.  Our love will never change.  God put us together for a reason.  He keeps us together for even better reasons.  We define "true love".

"And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70, And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23.  And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways.  Maybe just the touch of a hand, Oh me I fall in love with you every single day.  And I just wanna tell you I am".   I think about how much I can't control my urge to tell you I love you.  I fear sometimes I say it too much.  As if it is no longer believable.  Then I have moments where I know that isn't at all possible.  That maybe each time I say it to you that it is exactly what you needed to hear at that very moment.  That no matter what, you not only want to hear me say it, but need to hear me say it.  I'll be in love with you at 70.  At 80.  I fall as much in love with everyday as I did when were in our 20's.  It is amazing.

"'Cause honey your soul can never grow old, it's evergreen, Baby your smile's forever in my mind and memory".  So why doesn't it feel like 26 years?  Probably because you make me feel young.  Young and in love.  You never seem to age.  You just seem to get better.

So I guess we "found love right where we are".  And no matter where we are - as long as we are together we will have found love.  The truest love ever.  A love that will last forever.  No matter how forever is defined.  Forever is every day we are together.  Forever is every day I hold your hand and it holds mine back.  Forever is every day I kiss your cheek and you turn your head that way you always do.  Forever is every memory we create together.  Every kiss.  Every touch.

So happy 26th anniversary my love.  Given how much we have accomplished together, I guess it is time to stop being amazed at how long we have been married so far and think to myself how little 26 years represents of our forever together.  Thanks Ed Sheeran - you pretty much wrote our story for me.

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