Repeat......

One of the last days of the year and we celebrate another anniversary....this one our 55th! We can't help but look at each other and wonder "who knew??" We were so young when I walked down the aisle at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Park Ridge, IL and kissed at the altar. Who knew!?

Many, many years ago I started our "tradition" of signing up for one more year......and just one year at a time. At this point, some 30+years later we keep it going....no five year plan or any more of the "til death do us part" thoughts....on December 29th Dave will ask "one more year?" and, so far, I've responded "yes". 

This year we drove on down to Bay View and had dinner at Tenuto's....a favorite restaurant. Our servers asked what we were celebrating as they watched us spread our "memory tablecloth" over theirs and begin scribbling. This paper record was my idea for our 52nd and I dragged it along last night. I figured that, after 55 years, if we added to this we'd have something to talk about! The paper is getting crowded so if we ever do it again we may have to flip to the other side.

                               

It was a delicious meal with tiramisu as the dessert. When our server brought that he said "Congratulations to you...I've just been married for a year and hope I can someday celebrate the same. I'm not very artistic but tried to make the shared dessert special." He did!

So, happy anniversary to us.....and yes, we did sign up for one more year.....sort of romantic....but also "realistic" because we both admit we don't want to date anymore!  :-)