{"id":2443,"date":"2012-09-18T16:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2012-09-18T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:43:34","slug":"twenty-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/twenty-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Two Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty Two Years!<\/p>\n

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That’s how many wedded years my husband and I will be celebrating on Saturday, on our wedding anniversary! September 22, 1990 marks the day that changed our lives forever. When two, became one, in this journey of life and a new little family of two persons began. Twenty Two years spent side by side my best friend.<\/p>\n

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It feels so special, that I feel like we should be celebrating for an entire week! I can’t stop thinking about it, can’t stop being in awe of it! Twenty two years isn’t any ‘special’ milestone like 10 years, 25 years, 40 years, or even 50 years but EVERY year is a special milestone because every year that we celebrate another year of our marriage, is another year we speak volumes with our lives.<\/p>\n

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Our twenty two years speak loudly, that although, like any best friends we’ve had many ups and downs, we have chosen to tough it out, work through it, remain together, and find solutions to keep this marriage alive. But we’ve not been\u00a0satisfied\u00a0with just keeping it alive, we continue to aim for better, and better, until we can claim our best!<\/p>\n

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Any married person, any person who’s ever had a close friendship, has family, children, or a spouse, knows that it’s no easy task, to hang on, and KEEP hanging on, through the tough times.<\/p>\n

To keep striving for better, together, and most of all, within yourself first and foremost.\u00a0We take our vows seriously, through good times, AND bad. For better, AND worse.\u00a0<\/strong>There’s been better, and there’s been worse. There’s been good times, and there’s been bad. Mix it all together and you have, what I like to call, life.<\/p>\n

Live lived, becomes life worth living! Fully!<\/p>\n

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We’re passionate people, this husband of mine, and myself. I don’t mean just THAT<\/em> kind of passion (although hey, that helps too!)<\/em> I mean we’re passionate about EVERYTHING<\/em><\/strong> we believe in.<\/p>\n

We believe in us. We believe in marriage, and we believe in showing our children, through our own marriage, through our own lives, that marriage is worth clinging too, even through those hard times.<\/p>\n

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And that is why we’re still together, and why we’ll be celebrating 22 years this weekend. Through a\u00a0stubbornness which won’t allow us to give up! Because of a passion for one another, a passion for marriage, and a passion for raising our children by our own example, and most of all<\/strong><\/em>, through grace which has been given to us, and which we try our very best to freely give one another.<\/p>\n

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Being married 22 years IS a reason to celebrate! And although it’s been a very rough last couple of years on our family, on our marriage, and our lives, mentally, emotionally, physically, and financially, we ARE going to celebrate!! Because our marriage is worth it!<\/p>\n

I can’t wait!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can’t wait to spend some special time with this best friend of mine!<\/p>\n

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Twenty Two Years! That’s how many wedded years my husband and I will be celebrating on Saturday, on our wedding anniversary! September 22, 1990 marks the day that changed our lives forever. When two, became one, in this journey of life and a new little family of two persons began. Twenty Two years spent side […]<\/p>\n

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