Thank you!

So, if you read Fridays post you know this is a very important weekend for me. 

 I have hit two milestones that in my youth, were inconceivable.

The first, I wrote about was that today is my 60th Birthday. ( still doesn’t seem that I am that old)

The second milestone is not only more important to me but also harder for me to believe.

Today Lisa and I have been married for 40 years !!!!!!   

Again, another milestone I would never have been so bold as to predict as a young man!

I do have one question though. A question that has plagued me for quite some time.

It’s a simple question, not complicated in its structure but oh so complicated in its meaning and implementation.

The question is. 

How do you thank someone who….

Who took you back as a teenager after you broke her heart just a year earlier

Who said yes to a lifetime with a very broken, very scared young man.

Who gave up her dream to go to school for computer science right out of high school because I wouldn’t support it

Who lived in supportive, loving, compliance as I controlled all aspects of our new marriage for the first few years.

Who lived through all the tears I created in those early years

Who supported everything I did with a level of selflessness that bordered on saintly

Who gave me two beautiful children

Who has always worked to help support our family while also managing and tending a household and for many years without help.

Who agreed to move to Alabama and leave her family and friends so I could follow my dream of becoming SOMEONE.

Who spent countless days working and managing a home and teenage boys while I traveled around the country chasing my career.

Who cried herself to sleep too many nights with no one to wipe away the tears or ease her pain.

Who gives 100% of herself to me, her children, our grandchildren, and Daughter in laws.

Who thinks of other first,  ALWAYS.

I could go on and on, but you get the point. 

40 years of support and love at a level I never deserved.

So, I ask you again, How?

How can I possibly repay 40 years of love, sacrifice, and commitment like that?

How?

I love you Lisa!

You have gone from being just a        PART        of my world all those years ago 

To now you        ARE     my world!

 You taught this broken man what’s truly important in life!

Happy 40th.