Time to be Thankful in 2011!

Each year from November 1st till Thanksgiving many including myself will give daily thanks for people and special things in their life. So here is my 2011 edition:

Day 1 and I am thankful for my husband Ray. We met on November 11, 1984 and for him it was love at first sight claiming my blue eyes closed the deal!  I needed more time for him to pass a few tests and he won my heart once I knew he loved the Lord, could two-step, help with domestic chores, wanted children and importantly, he was a great speller and math whiz! Our meeting was arranged  by a mutual friend and she worked hard to make sure we made it down the aisle. Being both from large families, our union was more of a merger than a wedding. Ray is a mild mannered engineer who is content to spend a quiet evening at home, just what his wife the social butterfly would pick as her favorite date night! Over the years we have come to an agreement to help work out our complete opposite personalities: he shops for food by himself because I don't care what items cost by the 1/2 ounce and he knows there is a great possibility I will see someone I know anytime we go out...he waits patiently while I visit with them.

Twenty five years later we have been blessed with two wonderful children and shared times of happiness, sorrow, laughter, tears, health and sickness. 


Thank you Lord for sending me a mate who overlooks my faults, laughs at my jokes, helps me with math and loves me no matter what!