• Celebrating 41 Years of Marriage
My wife and I celebrated our 41st Wedding Anniversary over Labor Day weekend. We could not think of a better way to celebrate than to have our children and their mates with us for the weekend. So we planned ahead and they all came to be with us. What a great time we had: talking, sharing, eating, shopping and just spending quality time together. It was such a treat to enjoy our grown children taking turns with the meals and clean up, participating the good discussions and just having fun together. Lots of laughs! After it was all over…
Sharon and I were reflecting on the experience, we decided that this was the most wonderful way to celebrate our anniversary. What could be more special than the “present” than having all our children with us for a weekend? These family gatherings are so infrequent, that when they happen, we cherish them even more. It is a lot of work coordinating everyone’s work schedule and it takes a commitment of time and resources to make it happen. But we all have such a good time together that it reinforces how special our family values these times together.
We also celebrated the birth of Karina, our oldest, whose birthday was Aug 28th. So we just combined her 38th birthday into the weekend, so her siblings could participate. It is hard for us to imagine just how the years are racing by for all of us. I guess it’s because we all are so busy with our lives. So it is “sweet” when we can stop and reflect on how good God has been to our family. So when are we doing this again? Not sure yet! But we have begun talking about it…Thanksgiving, Between Christmas and New Years? We’ll see!
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