Living at DisneyLand

I had no idea when we married 40 years ago today that I was in for all the excitement of DisneyLand! Marriage is a lot like an amusement park ride...


Sometimes our life felt like a roller coaster, taking us on an exciting but scary ride up and down and around and through loops.

Sometimes it was like a kiddy ride, easy but kind of boring...

Sometimes we just turned around and around in circles, never really going anywhere.

Sometimes he was driving...sometimes I was in the driver's seat...

But we held on, pulled down that restraint bar and held on for dear life! I'm so lucky to be married to my best friend!


How to Stay Married
A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They
had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had
kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a
shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband
never to open or ask her about..
For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but
one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she
would not recover. In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man
took down the shoe box and took it to his wife's bedside.
She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the
box. When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money
totaling $25,000.
He asked her about the contents. "When we were to be married,"
she said, "my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was
to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should
just keep quiet and crochet a doll."
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears.
Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him
two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with
happiness.
Honey," he said, "that explains the doll, but what about all of
this money? Where did it come from?"
"Oh," she said, "that's the money I made from selling the dolls."