Forty three years ago John and I got married in a very small wedding at St. Joseph church in Florence Al. The only people there were my parents, brothers, sister and grand dad, John's mom and dad, and Shirley Kolossa who was the personnel manager at K-Mart. My sister-in-law Shirley and Joe McCellan served as our wittnesses.
We didn't have a reception or any thing like that. I didn't know too much about weddings and how they were put together. I think at the time I had only gone to about five weddings and they looked a little scary to me, so I didn't want all that hoopla.
John and I may be the two most boring people in the world, but our marriage has been anything but boring. We were 20 and 21 in 1966, we only knew each other 3 months when we got married. I pretty much knew from the time we first met that John was Mr. Right. We had the same ideas about life and the same values and that pretty much sealed the deal for me.
We have raised our family in the same house for the last forty years. Five kids, two parents and always any number of friends spending the night packed our three bedroom house to overflow capacity. Now when the kids and grand kids come we have to pack part of them off to Johnny's or Sarah's ( when they lived here). I have no desire to live anywhere else, this is the house where all our memories were made. If my ship every comes in though ,I will remodel, but like Mark asked " How is that ship going to get under that little bridge Daddy?"
I can only hope that our kids love and respect each other enough commit to their marriages and make it at least as long as John and I have.
Now enough about the past. I will tell you what we did today. We left the house at about 10:00 o'clock this morning and drove over to Hearts Crys this is a thrift store in Killen. We take the grand kids there when they are in and you would think they were shopping at Macy's. Found a dress, plate, toy tractor (for Luke), and a set of wheels for a Razor scooter. Spent $6.00.
We then went to Habitat Restore. Found a set of horseshoes from the Foundrey of the Shoals. If we keep them another fifty years they will probably be worth what we paid for them, $15.00. I also found a Hall CO. coffee pot for $8.00 total $22.00.
We then went to Chili's for lunch and had hamburgers ( that reminds me of something that happend on our honeymoon, but I won't get into that right now.) From the picture you can barely see the Chili's sign so I guess if God wanted us to take pictures of ourselves, he would have given us longer arms:)
We rounded off our exciting day by going over to check our antique booth at Keepers of the Past. As you can see it just happens to have a Salvation Army next to it and we had to prawl around in there for awhile. We did sell a china cabinet while we were in Keepers. $325.00
We came home had a bowl of chicken noodle soup and watched the movie "Bucket List".
We have for the past several years gone to Tunica for our anniversary, but John thinks we came out ahead this time. Made
$325.00 spent $50.00 on all our activities and didn't have to drive 8 hours.
Now we will start working forty four years...
