Married for 17 Years!

Yesterday was our anniversary and as the title states, we’ve been married for 17 years! We had a great day with my in-laws coming over and bringing along with them good food, gifts and a happy time. Later in the afternoon, our kids’ fantastic godparents visited along with their two adorable children and stayed until after dinner. It was truly a day of eating and making merry.

In honor of our anniversary, I will be writing a post about our marriage. I’ll touch briefly on personality types, learning styles, and warm and cold climate cultures, so keep a look-out for it in the near future. It hasn’t always been easy, but working through our differences has been worth it. And, believe me, we still have our differences! But, we have our similarities too! Here’s part of a poem I wrote to my husband in 1997:

I know we’ve had some struggles

Struggles in every way

But God is so much bigger

He seems bigger everyday

So, I just wanted to tell you

That I love you anyway

Even through all the hurt…

Read the full poem on my poetry blog Consider the Lilies.

17 years and 4 kids later... Here we are standing next to Samantha, our third child.