This year I am thankful for....forever

It is turkey day again.  My favorite holiday of the year.  Not only because I get to eat the food, but because every time I watch you cook the food I am reminded of the amazing life we have shared together and how far we have come from just being responsible to "bring the dinner rolls" to the feast you prepare each year.

It is kind of like a parallel measure of our life journey together.  Your thanksgiving dinner has grown throughout the years at a pace similar marriage.  Growing more refined, complicated and amazing each year.  So the next time you add a new recipe to the feast, think of how it emulates something else new we added in our amazing lifetime together.

I am going to use a list to remind of you what I am thankful for this year.  However, it is not intended to be a "year in review" list for 2016.  That will come at a later time (hmmm did I just "leak" the Christmas letter theme? maybe...maybe not).

First and foremost I am thankful for our marriage.  It remains the one thing in my life I can always count on to be great.  It never drifts away and it never lets me down.  This week I heard a Ben Harper song called "Forever" about his marriage.  In the song he says "Forever always seems to be around where it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends"  So my love give me your forever.  We will never end.

I am also thankful for the family we have made together.  Like any family it isn't perfect, but it is the best family for us.  I dreamed my whole life about having a family of my own.  You made it possible.  You perfected it.  You made sure it exceeded even my wildest dreams.

I am thankful for the good times and fun we have together.  I am truly never bored.  Somehow you manage to make me smile all the time.  Bad moods are short lived with you in my life.  We always seem to find something to entertain us.  Be it singing out loud or dancing around the basement.  It is just always a great time.

Finally, I am thankful we have settled on a place to live forever.  Because all I really want for the rest of my life is to spend forever with you.

So I know that this is the "what I am thankful for" blog post.  But in the end I am simply thankful for you.  Last week we were in the basement and you had a Led Zeppelin song playing and immediately I realized just how much I love you.  And I was shocked at the lyrics.

If the sun refused to shine
I would still be loving you
When the mountains crumble to the sea
There would still be you and me

Little Drops of rain
Mere Whispers of any pain
Our love is strong
with you there is no wrong

And so today my world it smiles
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles
For you to me are the only one

Happy Turkey day my love.  I will always be thankful for you in my life.

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