Rob and I just returned from Denver, where we gathered with his mom’s family to celebrate his grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary.
I have nothing but superlative things to say about Rob’s grandparents. They are inspiring. Grandma Marge and Grandpa Dick bop around like they’re a good 20 years younger than their respective 79 and 81 years.
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Several months ago, Ben and Abbie had their first “for better or for worse” moment: they decided to run a marathon together.
They started out strong, running together six days a week along the lake shore, past their new condo and the grassy spot where they got engaged, nothing between them but the Chicago summer sunshine [...]
But wait, there’s more! You didn’t think I would leave out all the intimate details of our honeymoon, did you?
It was inexplicably wonderful to vacation in Maui with a big group of family and friends — we pretty much took over the resort! We couldn’t walk from one end to the other without running into [...]
Oh yeah, I almost forgot: We got married!
No, seriously. I almost forgot. You know that feeling you get in the middle of winter, when the wind is blustering around you and you haven’t been able to feel you toes since Thanksgiving, and you just can’t seem to remember how it felt to stand in that [...]
You know what’s expensive? FURNITURE. Specifically, bedroom furniture. I can swallow dropping six hundred bucks on a nice kitchen table that I’m going to have to look at every day while I’m eating dinner off a $400 coffee table while sitting on a $500 couch and watching a television set that cost more than I [...]
