Six Months!!

I will be married to my wonderful husband for six months on Monday January 31, 2011.  I can’t believe it!!  It’s such a shock!! Why is it a shock, here is my list of reasons:

1.       I don’t get along well with most people.  At some point and time I find it necessary to get mad and let it affect the relationship.

2.       There were some (and I’m not naming names) who said this might be the biggest mistake of my life.  (And I’m really doing my best not to get in their face and say NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA but I might at say our 25^th Anniversary.  Just sayin!)

3.       Some parts of me really expected unhappiness, horrid to admit to, but true.

4.       He has kids.  (And I haven’t killed them {metaphorically speaking of course!})

5.       I’m a picky eater and don’t cook.  (That should’ve spelled doom from the start!)

Now I’m shocked that the list isn’t longer. 

Why, simple.  I’m not the easiest person to get to know.  I tend to build walls and not let people close.  I was hurt at a young age (my dad died of colon cancer when I was nine).  So deep down I was afraid, (key word AFRAID) that old habits would resurface living with another human being 24/7.  They didn’t!!  One reason, we keep God and prayer first!!

On a much lighter note, the depth of our marital love was proved this week; in a very unusual (yet usual for us) way.  We love Dr. Pepper.  And I mean L O V E!!  Not as much as each other, of course.  Well not as much as we love our Lord and Savior; and of course not as much as we do love “our girls”.  Wow, Dr. Pepper (DP) got moved from #2 on the love list to #4, hope he doesn’t mind.  Ok, on to the point.  With the recent snow, rain and ice we ran out of DP, which is practically a sin in and of itself.  (Please see the humor intended in that sentence!)  There was enough left in the last bottle for one last glass.  We both kept “saving” it for one another.  For so long, that when we finally replenished (part weather, part laziness) and I went to poor a glass both for myself and my beloved, IT WAS FLAT!!  Please tell me you see the absurd humor in that!!!  We saved so much, that it was ruined.  Morale to the story is:  Live life like you mean it.  Every day, every way, and in every word!!