Happy Anniversary

I'm married 14 years today. I can't believe it, really. Not that it has flown by, I mean, I have 3 kids - we have accomplished a lot! It's just that I can't believe we made it this far. Does this mean it's forever? I keep looking for that year - that when you reach it you say - well, we have made it this far, we are together forever. I want the guarantee.

I know people that divorced after 35 years. Why would you stay together that long? You must have known that there were problems. What the hell. Stay together for the kids? Not a good idea. But, I can't imagine only seeing my kids every other week. It would have to be really bad.

But it's not bad. It's pretty damn good. I'm happy.

Let's look at the postives:
He loves me. Unconditionally from all I can tell.
He puts up with my moods.
He makes me laugh.
He teaches my kids all the details about throwing a baseball or football.
He does my daughters hair.
He loves my family.
We like the same restaurants.
We love vacations - with or without kids.
We have fun just the two of us.

What more can I ask? That he deal with more of the "housekeeping" with the house and kids, i.e. home improvements - shouldn't he handle these, and daycare during school closing - just once? Maybe he should deal with these things more often, but would I trade all of the above for that? I hope not.

"FREE"

Okay, this is too funny. My neighbors across the street are moving.

"Am I sad" you may ask, well no, I'm not. I've lived here 11 years and the only time we have spoken to these neighbors was when I backed out of my driveway, eyes blurred with tears after putting my middle son on the bus to Kindergarten, and ran into the wife's car. DUH! I was so scared, but the wife was very nice. Have not spoken to them since, and my son will be entering 2nd grade this month.

Okay, so they are moving next weekend and just this afternoon, they put a load of "stuff" on the side of the road with a "FREE" sign posted.
Example of items:
plastic sleds
particle board closet
grass seed spreader (2)
small satellite dish
black trash bag filled with who knows what
lawn chairs
etc.

I have been in my home office on conference calls since this stuff appeared, 1 1/5 hours ago. Within the first half hour, the sleds were gone, 1 spreader, the lawn chairs, a weed whacker and if you can believe it, the trash bag. WHAT WAS IN THAT? The guy that stopped got out, grabbed a few things, got back in his car - then got back out. He grabbed the sleds and the trash bag.

Gotta love this. It's too funny.

Oh yeah, I called my other neighbor, the friend neighbor, on my cell (I'm on a conference call remember?) and asked her to grab me the last spreader. Hey, free stuff!