More Than Bronze

Today is our nineteenth wedding anniversary.  N-I-N-E-T-E-E-N-T-H.  There really isn't a "traditional" anniversary gift for your nineteenth anniversary ... although the modern gift is bronze.  Bronze?  


Typically, the coming of our anniversary is for Dean and I to celebrate quietly, but this year it feels differently.  This year we have watched several friend's marriages dissolve ... as in that is it.  And each one has been upsetting to us ... and made us want to fight for our marriage all the more.  We have a lot to fight for!


Because there has been a lot of living for us in the last nineteen years.  We share a daughter.  We have moved across the country ... twice!  There have been more pets than I care to remember (please don't remind me of the hamsters!)  We have moved into 9 different homes.  We have built 3 houses (or, should I say HAD built!)  We have gone to Israel.  And Mexico.  We have spent many, many hours on the beach.  We have worshipped together.  We have laughed.  And cried.  And shared.  And grieved.  And dreamed.  And loved.  


I would daresay our celebrating our 19th anniversary is worth more than bronze.