The Bride

I am fast approaching my anniversary with "the Bride". When you have ten kids strangers will often feel they can ask you anything about this relationship they want just based on the number of children you have. "Do you know what causes that," "Do you not have cable" and some that just make you blush, not for yourself but for the other person for not having the tact and manners to be polite. Yes, we know what causes these children and we have cable (basic)and this is the life we wanted. But, it did make me pause the other evening while I was watching my bride work in the kitchen with the kids. I had just had back surgery and she was taking everything on that we would normally do together. And she was smiling and laughing with the kids and making them feel like they were the only kid in the room. Later, she helped me get around the house in my gimpy, post operative state.

I think what people really are saying when they ask those questions is, "why didn't I get that." "Why isn't my relationship that tight." And I can't answer that for them. I know that what my bride and I have pulled together wasn't driven by luck, but by hard work and a touch of plain old hard nosed determination. Oh yeah and a heap of that love stuff, flaming hot burnin' love stuff.

Cause as a wise woman once told me, "ya gotta have the heat boy."

Thanks Grandma.