Wasn't it just yesterday????

36 years of marriage

7 moves

4 states 

4 counties 

1 parish

3 houses

3 apartments

1 double- what the locals call a duplex in New Orleans

32 days in a bed and breakfast

3 children - who were 1, 4, and 7 when we lived in the bed and breakfast for 32 days 

6 additional children that God gave us

3 wonderful, adorable, and precious grandchildren

And immeasurable fun and love and blessings. 

Here's to at least 36 more!!!!

KimT, Hazel, and a 5th Anniversary

Today is my blog anniversary!! Five Years!!!! Here is my first blog.  Oh, my.  It is fun to look back and see how far I've progressed.  This blog was started because KimT and Hazel told me they wanted me to share more of my stories about life as it happens to me.  My title comes from Taylor.  She needed a name to call me and Bubbles is what we came up with.  Carl is Money but he doesn't embrace it.  I still think it would be funny if Atticus and any that follow called him Money, but we can't have everything we want.

Thanks for reading!  Thanks for sending me texts about blogging more, telling me that I need to change my blog header and letting me know that you have learned things from my blog.

Thank you again!!
Love, Bubbles

Good Time, Party Time- Anniversary Time

Today is my 33 wedding anniversary.  I know you probably think this is a strange picture to put up for such a day as this but this picture represents life as we know it.  I am so thankful that Carl is the one that is going through this crazy thing we call life with me.  I am so thankful for his calmness in the midst of our lives.  I am thankful for his willingness to let us open our home to so much fun/people/craziness.

I have two close friends who have husbands that decided that they didn't want to be married to them anymore.  That makes me realize all the more that God has given me this gift of marriage and I by no means celebrate it lightly.

Lucille Ball, tennis shoes and anniversaries

On of my favorite movies is Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. I love it for many reasons. One is that I saw it in the movie theater with my mama when I was a little girl. It was just me and my mama! What a fun memory!

Another reason is the story itself- He has 10 children and she has 8. Both their spouses die and they are left to raise their children alone. They have a baby together and they strive to make their family work.

My favorite scene is near the end when Henry Fonda is taking Lucille Ball to the hospital to have their baby. As this is happening one of the older daughters is being pressured to sleep with her boyfriend and she really doesn't want to but he keeps saying that if she loves him she will. All this is brought to the attention of Henry and Lucille as they are leaving for the hospital. Henry Fonda tells the girl to look at her mother, see what she looks like right now. "This is love," he says "Love is not getting in bed with a man but getting up everyday with him and doing all the mundane things of everyday life" I just love that!

I thought about this recently when I was on a business trip with Carl. Because of my back, I go to physical therapy about three times a week when I am home. One thing my pt recommended that I limit doing myself is putting on my tennis shoes or any non slip-on shoe. Before Carl's meetings each morning, dressed in his suit, ever so gently, he put my tennis shoes on me. Here he was ready to go and fight the lions and tigers and bears for me but first he took the time to do what he could for me to keep me from pain. What love!

Go rent the movie if you haven't seen it, you will enjoy it too. And do some mundane things today for those you love, they will know it.

32 years ago today Carl and I got married. It seems like yesterday. God sure blessed me with a great guy.