two and forty years ago today...
...my parents were married.
Phyllis and Bill
married November 15, 1963
Funny how similar their marriage has been to my own with regard to timing.
My mom was sixteen when she got married.
I was seventeen. (do you have annny clue how incredulous both of these facts make me when I consider that Corey is now 16.5???)
My dad was nineteen.
Tommy was eighteen.
They were married four years before having their first child (me!)
We were married almost four years before having our first child.
I was four when my only sibling was born.
Corey was almost four when his only sibling was born.
They lived with Dad's parents for a couple of years from just before my birth til shortly after I started walking.
We lived with my parents, in the same basement where they'd lived all those years before, for a couple of years just after Casey was born.
They moved just a little ways up the road from my grandparents.
We moved just a little ways up the road from our kids' grandparents.
Sometimes I don't know how they do it, holding it together for all these years. But then, sometimes I don't know how we do it, either. It's at that point that I know it is the work of the Almighty and nothing we do ourselves.
Mom and Daddy, even though I know you'll never read this at all, I wanted to share your accomplishment with the internet. I'm so proud of you!
Love,
Geannie
Comments
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!! That is so sweet. Accomplishments like these should be celebrated. They seem to be fewer and fewer of them. *sigh* So, I am always glad to read of ones that are making it!
Posted by: Claire | November 16, 2005 05:39 PM
oh look at them. they're still babies!!!
ok so just tell corey he's not allowed to even look at girls til he's 24. no worries. *snort*
Posted by: mrs. diamond | November 16, 2005 07:34 PM
I feel same way, Claire. I so appreciate to hear of long marriages b/c there just are so few these days.
:)
Posted by: Subject G | November 16, 2005 11:19 PM
Your Mom stil looks the same!
Well, except for the hair, and the dress! lol
Congrats to them!
Yep, Kenn is coming up on the age that D was when we got married, As well as Mel approaching my marrying age.
Scary thoughts for sure!
But we were much more mature than they are! lol
Posted by: Member Linda | November 17, 2005 07:34 AM
Oh how sweet! Sixteen is young to marry though! WOW! Great they made it through all these years!
Posted by: Tracey | November 18, 2005 03:53 PM
Yep, it's young and I wouldn't wish for or advise either of my kids to marry that young.
BUT it can and does work if the couple are committed to making it work.
I get sick of hearing jokes or snide comments about teenagers marrying.
Tommy's g'ma's first question when his mom called to tell her the news was, "When's the baby due?"
I wasn't pregnant. >:[
Gah! Anyhows...thanks. :)
Posted by: Subject G | November 18, 2005 04:21 PM
Yep. Mom still looks basically the same. Is that not just SICK?! I'm telling you, her and daddy sucked up ALL those youth genes for themselves and left me & J with NOTHING!
Up until about 4-5 years ago, except for expanding in the middle a bit, my dad looked the same, too. He just started getting gray then, at like 59!!!!
Gah! Blast them for hoggin' all the youth.
When I was like 18, some idiot in a mall approached dad (when I was the only one with him) passing out samples and said would you and YOUR WIFE like to try some?
AAAAAARGHHHHH!!! I didn't know whether it was that I looked that da'gone old or he looked that da'gone young!! Either way, it sucked!
And mom...I try not to get out with her too much because there's only so many times a gal can handle being asked if her mother is her sister.
*wail*
It is just SO not fair!!!!!!
*pout*
Posted by: Subject G | November 23, 2005 01:22 PM
LOL! Yeah, Dia. When Corey hit 16 I couldn't stop thinking "I was married at just a year past this?!?! --- WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!?"
*sigh* I'm hopeful that Corey's one experience w/the girlfriend thing was enough to scare him off it for a long time.
Seriously, it was awful for all of us. :( I'd have given anything to stop it, but there just was no way. I think the Lord has used it for good, tho. Because he IS much more wary of girls who are flirty/clingy/in-your-face. He's learned that his ol' mom knows a thing or two about coniving girls.
No, she didn't used to be one. She used to know a whole gaggle of 'em, tho. *bleck*
Posted by: Subject G | November 23, 2005 01:23 PM