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No, that is not a typo. I did indeed mean to type 61 years. The people who survived raising my siblings and myself are celebrating 61 years of marriage together today. These two incredible examples to us all have weathered the Great Depression, WWII, traveling the country, watching their children be born and eventually called home by the Lord, they have rejoiced at Weddings and births, and mourned at funerals, gained a great deal of gray hair raising their Grandchildren and wept with untold joy at the birth of their Great-Grandchildren. There are few today who can even claim 50 years (half the people I know can not even make it to 10 years!), but my parents have been together 61 years! I thought I would share each of their secrets for a long and happy marriage. First, from my Grandmother: Never criticize your husband in public, not even around good friends; wait until you get in private to tell him he sounds like the biggest horse’s butt on the planet. Next, from my Grandfather who took my husband aside and told him this before I walked down the isle. No matter what, any time she asks you whether you like a new paint color, dress, curtains, I do not care what it is you answer, “If it makes you happy dear, it tickles the crap out of me.” If I can make it just half the time they did, I will truly be a blessed woman.
Happy 61st Anniversary Granmother & Gran !!!! |
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