Earlier this week Gary and I celebrated our wedding anniversary. We've been married nineteen years. And when I titled this My Best Friend I wasn't being facetious. He truly is my best friend. He knows me better than anyone - even better than I know myself. He is truly an amazing man and taught me so much! A friend of mine from high school who is on Facebook sent me a private message a while back saying that he read my posts and he could tell how happy Gary and I were from our posts. Yes we are happy and it made me feel good to know that this came across in our posts.
Let me tell you a little bit about how we got to this point in our marriage. We have never made any secret of the fact that I am older than Gary. Thirteen years older to be exact. This has brought us a lot of amusing responses sometimes when people realize our age difference. One of my favorite is from a former Sunday School student who upon learning that I was 13 years older responded "Way to go, Mrs. Marrs!". We went together for two and a half years before we got married. We never intended to end up in a relationship, but then nothing ever goes the way you plan when God is involved.
When we got married I had three teenage daughters (ages, 12, 14, and 16) and another teenage girl (16) living with us as her parents had moved out of state and she wanted to continue in the school she was at. I thought I almost had my family raised and was on the downhill slide of parenting so to speak. I thought Gary was young enough (he was only 24) that he should consider having a family of his own. So when he asked me to marry him I told him no. I told him no many, many times. It was to the point where the girls were asking me daily "have you told Gary yes yet?" I accused him of paying them off. LOL He finally convinced me and you could say the rest is history but our relationship is anything but typical.
When we got married Gary started a job with a new company (Wendy's). They were building a new restaurant in town and it was supposed to be open within two to three months. He would spend that time training and opening up other new stores until his was ready. We knew this and thought we could handle the two - three months. Surprise!!! Construction issues set that time frame back and we spent the first year of our marriage apart from each other. He would typically work ten days then have three-four days when he would come home. He opened stores in Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. Depending on where he was at we might meet in Kansas City to spend an afternoon together. We survived and finally were able to actually 'start' our life together.
Another surprise within our first year of marriage -- we welcomed our first grandson! How many people are so lucky to be able to have a grandson at such an early age? And what a blessing he and all our other grandchildren are to us.
We have added two more children, through adoption, to our family and that first grandchild has increased to seven. Through all this Gary has been my rock. He has been there when we have gone through the miscarriage of grandchildren, through the hurts and pains of children in general, through deaths in the family, through numerous surgeries and always always he has been there for me.
He has taught me patience and understanding. He has taught me to be myself. He has encouraged me and loved me unconditionally. He has been an amazing step-father and father. He has shown me what a true friend is. He has been a Godly example to our children and to me. He has shown me what it is to really serve with your heart. He has taken care of me, supported me and loved me.
One of the things I love most about our marriage is our laughter. There is not a day goes by that we do not share laughter either with each other or at each other ( and to be honest most of it is at me). I consider my day a good day if I am able to make him laugh -- thankfully almost every day is a good day!
So although our anniversary was a couple of days ago - I still want to wish my best friend a Happy Anniversary.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Irritating Things
Well, I haven't written a blog for a while. Part of the reason was because I had hand surgery and one handed hunt and peck is kinda hard for much typing. LOL Anyway --- I'M BACK!!
Don't you all have things that irritate you? Come on now, be honest. You know you do. I do and just because it's my blog and I can write whatever I want I thought I would share some of those irritations with you.
One thing that truly annoys me is perky people!!! Especially early in the morning. And have you ever noticed that if they have a woman weather person she is waaay to perky! Yep, makes me just want to reach into the screen and slap that perky little smile off her face and tone her down about 20 notches. Perky people in general just irritate me. They are quite annoying..always smiling and they usually have some sort of irritating voice to go along with all that perkiness.
Speaking of weather people -- we recently switched news channel that we watch. So this new station I have noticed some strange things with the weather guy in the last couple of weeks. It's the way he reports the weather. He says things like - 'if you are used to warm days they might be cooler and if you are used to cool days they might be warmer'. Really? Then a few days later he says 'we have a chance of rain today this means maybe you will get wet but maybe you won't'. Yeah - I could have deduced that for myself - don't need any type of meteorology degree for that brilliant observation!
What about texting? I love texting. Such a great way to send a question that doesn't need immediate response. Person receiving can answer at their convenience. Perfect way to share amusing things to a group - and I do that a lot. But why does my phone think it knows better than I what I want to say? You know what I mean. You are typing along and your phone just auto-corrects and puts words in your text for you. Really? I know what I want to say and it wasn't what you just auto populated. So you have to backspace, backspace, backspace (although to be honest - my phone makes a cool noise when I backspace so sometimes I just do it to hear the noise LOL). But when you are tyring to type something it's a total pain. And heaven forbid if you don't catch that it has changed a word and put in something totally wrong or inappropriate!! This can be very embarrassing! Trust me - I know it has happened to me.
And some commercials are just plain stupid! I'm thinking specifically of the ear vacuum commercial. That stupid guy in the commercial always irritates me! Always!!! I don't know if you've seen this commercial but it talks about how you always put a Q-tip in to deep if you clean your ears and this handy little ear vac will eliminate that problem for you. It goes through a little demonstraton of how water goes in and you vacuum out the water and all the ear wax comes with it. Then it has this stupid guy with a Q-tip putting the Q-tip in way deep and he always says "OUCH!" And I always say, "Idiot!" Yep, this commercial irritates me way much.
And commercials that don't make any sense irritate me. When a commercial is over I should not have to ask "what was that a commercial for?" And I've noticed that I do that a lot recently. The thing is a lot of these commercials don't have actors it's just different scenes they show and I'm sitting in my chair shaking my head wondering what's going on? And Gary isn't always able to explain to me what the commercial was about either. And if commercials irritate me you can bet that I won't be using that product or that business for anything. I can't get past the stupidity of the commercials. So I know there a couple of car dealers here in town that I will never ever use because I hate their commercials and there's also a realtor I won't use because of her past stupid commercials.
Okay - enough of my rant for the day. I'll try to do better about not waiting so long to post again. If you have something you want me to write about, let me know or even if you have something you want me to write a poem about I'll do my best for you.
Don't you all have things that irritate you? Come on now, be honest. You know you do. I do and just because it's my blog and I can write whatever I want I thought I would share some of those irritations with you.
One thing that truly annoys me is perky people!!! Especially early in the morning. And have you ever noticed that if they have a woman weather person she is waaay to perky! Yep, makes me just want to reach into the screen and slap that perky little smile off her face and tone her down about 20 notches. Perky people in general just irritate me. They are quite annoying..always smiling and they usually have some sort of irritating voice to go along with all that perkiness.
Speaking of weather people -- we recently switched news channel that we watch. So this new station I have noticed some strange things with the weather guy in the last couple of weeks. It's the way he reports the weather. He says things like - 'if you are used to warm days they might be cooler and if you are used to cool days they might be warmer'. Really? Then a few days later he says 'we have a chance of rain today this means maybe you will get wet but maybe you won't'. Yeah - I could have deduced that for myself - don't need any type of meteorology degree for that brilliant observation!
What about texting? I love texting. Such a great way to send a question that doesn't need immediate response. Person receiving can answer at their convenience. Perfect way to share amusing things to a group - and I do that a lot. But why does my phone think it knows better than I what I want to say? You know what I mean. You are typing along and your phone just auto-corrects and puts words in your text for you. Really? I know what I want to say and it wasn't what you just auto populated. So you have to backspace, backspace, backspace (although to be honest - my phone makes a cool noise when I backspace so sometimes I just do it to hear the noise LOL). But when you are tyring to type something it's a total pain. And heaven forbid if you don't catch that it has changed a word and put in something totally wrong or inappropriate!! This can be very embarrassing! Trust me - I know it has happened to me.
And some commercials are just plain stupid! I'm thinking specifically of the ear vacuum commercial. That stupid guy in the commercial always irritates me! Always!!! I don't know if you've seen this commercial but it talks about how you always put a Q-tip in to deep if you clean your ears and this handy little ear vac will eliminate that problem for you. It goes through a little demonstraton of how water goes in and you vacuum out the water and all the ear wax comes with it. Then it has this stupid guy with a Q-tip putting the Q-tip in way deep and he always says "OUCH!" And I always say, "Idiot!" Yep, this commercial irritates me way much.
And commercials that don't make any sense irritate me. When a commercial is over I should not have to ask "what was that a commercial for?" And I've noticed that I do that a lot recently. The thing is a lot of these commercials don't have actors it's just different scenes they show and I'm sitting in my chair shaking my head wondering what's going on? And Gary isn't always able to explain to me what the commercial was about either. And if commercials irritate me you can bet that I won't be using that product or that business for anything. I can't get past the stupidity of the commercials. So I know there a couple of car dealers here in town that I will never ever use because I hate their commercials and there's also a realtor I won't use because of her past stupid commercials.
Okay - enough of my rant for the day. I'll try to do better about not waiting so long to post again. If you have something you want me to write about, let me know or even if you have something you want me to write a poem about I'll do my best for you.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Duck Dynasty Poem
Here it is Wednesday again. One of my favorite days of the week! I love Wednesdays! This has become our family night. My daughter and her family come over. Sometimes we have dinner together - sometimes not -- depending on what's going on and what we are having - LOL. We play games - maybe just the adults playing cards but sometimes a family board game. Then we get our snacks and watch Duck Dynasty. I love this show!
The following poem sums up Duck Dynasty. If you don't already watch this show you need to start.
You might say we are crazy and some would agree
The show is amazing, clever and funny
Phil and Miss Kay, Uncle Si and the brothers
Their antics are crazy their work ethic is too
Whether hunting for
ducks or looking for turtles
Phil will give
advice in his quiet sort of way
They believe in God and end each show with a prayer
The following poem sums up Duck Dynasty. If you don't already watch this show you need to start.
DUCK DYNASTY
Today is a day we look forward to with glee
It’s Wednesday today and that means Duck Dynasty!
But Wednesday nights are the best for me.
The family down to earth in spite of their money.
The wives and the children all love one another.
But each week I look forward to something new.
Nothing for them
is too big of a hurdle.
Hunt down an
alligator that has come in the yard
Nothing for them will
prove too hard.
And they all look
forward to food from Miss Kay.
To God they give credit for all their success
And they all consider that they have been blessed.
The message that comes across is perfectly clear.
Love God and love your family
And that is why I look forward to Duck Dynasty!
Written by: Kathie Marrs
October 9, 2013
Friday, October 4, 2013
Enjoy what you have
This week Gary and I took a little overnight getaway trip. No reason - just wanted to. It was so nice. I enjoy things like this. I enjoy spending time with him and with any of my family and friends. I love when the grandkids come to spend the night. When I make posts on Facebook about little things I've done with family or grandkids I usually have someone make a comment about enjoy the time while you can. My response to this is: I do. I learned many years ago that people are taken away to soon so I have always always always enjoyed myself and my family and what I have. My house may be cluttered after a visit from the grandkids but that's ok as long as they and I had fun while they were there. Here's a poem that reflects this philosophy. I hope you enjoy it.
Your parents are aging and ask for assistance?
The time you have with them to spend
Others would love this option to be given,
Work is important but family is too
Take time to watch your son play ball
Run in the rain or play in the snow
Parents grow older and children do too
Treasure the moments, count them as gold
TREASURE THE
MOMENTS
Treasure the moments you have been given
Each one is a gift from Heaven.
Treasure your family and the time you can spend
Don’t negate the time you have with them.
Do so without grumbling or any resistance.
Will all too quickly come to an end.
But parents were taken too early to heaven.
Remember, God has given them to you.
Go for a walk with children who are small.
Spend time with the ones you know.
And all they want is time with you.
Without warning
loved ones are called home.
Written by: Kathie
Marrs
October
3, 2013
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