Happy Anniversary to Us!

7 years ago today, (Sgt. Pepper Taught the Band to Play”…oops! I digress) I married the love of my life. It hasn’t been a normal marriage to most people’s standards. But it has been a much more that I ever thought it could be.

We were floating in the pool around 10pm when Tom said “Wanna get married Saturday?” We had been engaged for awhile and neither of us was in any great rush to be wed, since we had been together for a few years already. I was shocked. “Married??? Saturday???? THIS Saturday???” I asked. Then he explained that a city judge was going to marry people for free, if they just showed up with license in hand. I told him we didn’t have enough time to pull anything together and he laughingly agreed. The next day, at work, my co-worker asked me if I was getting married the next day. I was floored. What was the deal? Some big cosmic event happening that everyone was out to get me hitched? I told her I didn’t have time; we didn’t even have a license. She said that the 2 of us had been through so much and deserved to be happy together, forever. She suggested I look into what it would take….I called Tom and said “Wanna get married tomorrow”? HIS turn to be shocked. Turned out, we could get a license. We could pull together a suit for him and a dress for me. I could find flowers, champagne, and a sugar-free cake. And on the HOTTEST DAY OF 2001, I married Tom. We were without family that day, but as we came out of the room, people up and down the halls congratulated us and hugged us and wished us the very best. We suddenly became part of an extended community of well-wishers.

7 Years…. We have had our moments. Trying to blend me into a family who was not very enthusiastic in the beginning. Coping with health issues, work schedules, moves, life and death….we have been through it all. And we have our Swan.

Life is good. I found the love of my life when I thought I was done looking. And it is really, really good.

Happy Anniversary, my Bee-Bee. Here’s to many mores and mores.

T