A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.   ~Mignon McLaughlin

Most of the time I blog about something new…the brand new life of a precious newborn…the feisty independence of the newly walking toddler…or those new tender moments of marital love between a husband and a wife on their wedding day.    Freshness, wonder, joy, and the delight in the newness of it all.

Today, I’m celebrating the not so new – but still fresh, wonderful, joyful, and delightful nevertheless.  Yesterday, my parents celebrated 60 years of marriage.  That seems such a long time – and it is.  It’s a long time to love, honor, and cherish the same person.  It’s a long time to know struggle, frustration, anger, and impatience.  But, it’s also a long time to know care, gentleness, kindness, devotion, and patience.   It’s a long time to face challenges, over come obstacles, celebrate victories, and share tears of happiness. It’s a long time to know how to work together, raise children together, plan together, care for illness together, and change together. And it’s a long time to love together for without the love, there is no together.  A long marriage is like a long slow dance – and anyone that knows my parents knows just how well they dance.

This is what 60 years of love looks like.  Enjoy….Robin