Warning: sappy stuff ahead!!

Today is my 18th wedding anniversary! I can't believe it! Woke up this morning with the worst cold known to man...AUGH!!! More on that in a minute. Also woke up to my hubby giving me a kiss on the cheek, before he went out the door to work, and telling me he loved me. SIGH!!! ( I did warn you about sappy stuff) 18 years people!! That is a long time. I met this man when I was just 15. We dated for about two weeks and then he got a hair cut. See he had this major afro going...then got it all cut off. I went over to his house to see him and when he walked around the corner and I saw him I felt my heart leap out of my chest and fall gently in his hands. He has had it there ever since. As you can imagine with this being an interracial marriage we've had our share of ups and downs. Mostly ups. He's a good man, my Capt and I love him dearly. I cannot imagine being married to anyone else. My daughter always tells us she will not settle for anything less then what we've found together. It is the highest of compliments to me. He just came home from work with this.....



It's a chest from China.....
















The basket of roses is for Valentines day. Yep we got married on Valentines day. We drove to Vegas and got "hitched" by the Justice of the Peace. See, we couldn't afford to be married in a chapel of love and the JP was only $25 at the time. :) heehee The stories I could tell of trying to hang on to this man admidst parental worry...a year away (dad was in the Air Force and when I graduated we moved to Sicily...hubby still had a year to go in High School) and half the country against us at the word go. 18 years later what do I have to say about it all??? I would do it again in a minute! I don't regret a second. So raise your glasses everyone for a toast...To my hubby...may I always make you as happy as you have made me, may our life together be an exciting one and may we always remember that it is God who leads us and keeps us.

I am off to eat shrimp and scallops...the hubby felt that since I was sick he'd cook..and then tomorrow we are going out for steak and lobster! Life is good everyone!