Grow Old Together, The Best is Yet to Come

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (Billy Joel)

Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore                       
I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take 'till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.

I said I love you, and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are.

Drum Role Please

 

 

Tomorrow Bob and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary with a blessing at a Mass in St. Joseph's church here in Florida.  We were married in Beverly Ma. at the St. Mary's Star and Sea Church, on May 25, 1958, many moons ago!

 

We meet the night before my sixteenth birthday at a local teen dance.  He asked me to go for a ride the following Sunday and I said I would only go if he bring a date for my best friend.  He did and they will celebrate their 50th in September.   The rest is history.

 

After the children left the nest, and moved out of state, it was time to plan our new adventure after retirement.  And what an adventure it has been.  We sold  or gave away almost everything we had, including our home and a camp in Maine.   Before we retired we purchased a motorhome and started gathering interesting information on things and places we would like to see.   It has been eight years and we have no regrets.  We have pretty well seen ever thing we wanted to, except Oregon and Washington state.   Maybe next summer.

 

So here we are, fifty years later.  We are lucky, we laugh every day, still kiss each other when one is going out, have  no serious medical issues  and still enjoy each others company.   We don't know why we are so blessed, but we thank the Lord for each other every day.   Life is good.

 

PS      Happy anniversary to our friends Gary and Shirley tomorrow too.