Today Jen and I are celebrating 19 years of marriage together. I love that I get to say that. 19 years of marriage includes a lot of things. So here are some things I believe about Jen, our life together, and some thoughts on what has made 19 great years so far:
- I love Jen more each day. Really, it just keeps growing over the years.
- We never go to bed mad at each other. Really, we never have. We stay up late and figure it out no matter how tired we are.
- I try to buy her flowers once on a while. I really like to do that on non-special-occasions
- She make me a pie once in a while. I love fruit pie and she knows it. She does it not because she has nothing better to do, but because she loves me and takes time to do things I like.
- She is my best friend. Seriously, if I have free time and want to go do something, I want her to go with me or she's the one I want to hang out with.
- We laugh a lot.
- We pray together and talk about our relationship with Jesus. We encourage each other that way.
- We are not perfect. We do and say things we shouldn't...probably quite often. But we both recognize that, admit it, and ask for forgiveness.
- We try not to add stress to our lives by living a fast-paced-action packed life. It leaves margin in our life for unplanned things and the surprises of life.
- We don't have any debt(except our house). If we didn't have the money we waited until we did before we'd buy something.
- We don't revolve our lives around our kids. We love them and give to them. But Jen and I were a family first...then they became a welcomed member of our family. They are not the center.
- We try to have regular dates...just her and I.
- We have regular get-a-ways...just her and I. Usually 1-2 nights away.
I am so blessed. I definitely married up.
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