Wow, we will never be lonely in our retirement years. “So now we are alone, to be focused on each other again: This will be wonderful. We will not have more children to raise, and no one will listen to us anyway. Now we are experts, and it is the one thing we’ve learned that is worthless. We stumbled through it, making many mistakes and learning as we went. “Now our kids are grown and out with families of their own, and to think that we had no play book to raise these kids, other than our own past observation and experience.
Oh, the rent is due, we need furniture, let’s remodel the house, crap, the car is broken … and after six kids, we finally figured out what caused it. The wedding night was magical, though I think it was more magical for me. We spent nearly a year planning all the wedding details, and then it was over in a couple hours. By senior year, we thought: OK, I got this. There seemed to be an unusual attraction to the opposite sex. “In high school, we thought: OK, boys and girls are different. They never told us what the girls were told, and vice versa. For the boys it was something like: Respect girls, and keep your pants zipped. At some point, they took the girls to a different room, and each room had the talk. We learned about hygiene, the food pyramid, exercise and that boys and girls are different. “Sex education: We had sex education in grade school.
This started me thinking of all the things that have happened during our 56 years of marriage, and how life is different today. She and her intended husband have scheduled their wedding on the same date that my wife and I were married 56 years ago. This was the first wedding shower I ever attended, my first granddaughter, my first grandchild getting married. “Recently I went to my granddaughter’s wedding shower.