Some Things I Love About You

The newlyweds in 1986

Twenty-seven years ago today, my husband and I held hands in a room filled with friends and family, and promised to spend the rest of our lives devoted to each other. We were filled with love and great hopes for the future. We couldn't possibly have imagined all the adventures that lay ahead, the challenges we would face, the amazing highs and unexpected lows that we would experience on our journey. Through better and worse, richer and poorer, sickness and health, joy and sorrow, we have continued to choose each other. We are still growing, still discovering life together.

Here is a partial list (in no particular order) of reasons I love my husband.

• He has kept this picture (taken a few months after our wedding) on his desk all these years.
• He encouraged me to go back to school.
• He takes care of me when I'm sick.
• On my scary, landmark birthdays, he puts great effort into making the day special and happy.
• He has blue-gray eyes.
• He keeps my feet warm at night.
• When we eat at a restaurant, he holds my hand across the table.
• He takes great care of our cats.
• Sometimes when we see a cute actress on TV, he says she is too skinny.
• He makes me laugh.
• He will never let me go hungry.
• The brunette he married became a blonde without warning, and that's okay with him.
• He is willing to admit his faults and make changes.
• He works hard, and he's good at what he does.
• He took me to Africa.
• When he gets up from the couch, he asks if he can get anything for me.
• He's a great kisser.
• He has never given up on us.