This is a play off of Kelly's site. Sort of. In a way. http://kellysbubble.blogspot.com So I'm stealing your idea but the content is different; kay Kell?
Today I was at a grocery store with the littlest. Fairly uneventful trip; I was on a mission and I quickly gathered what I needed to but it was nice, just he and I. As we were leaving, I noticed this older couple in front of us. Maybe they were each in their 80's. They looked SO happy. They were just jabbering away and smiling at each other. Imagine that. Seriously, I'm thinking, how amazing it is that they are as old as they are (and not said in a negative tone at all) and still are finding these things to talk about. What kind of enchanting things were they discussing? I watched them in sheer surprise and also pride. Weird huh? They were holding hands and he was leading her. Her hair was literally as white as snow and it was so shiny and full of life. Probably because she never has dyed it. She was dressed in a red top with black pants. The cutest part was that she was wearing that black and red outfit with shoes that totally didn't go; they were pink, blue, yellow and green tennis shoes. I just smiled. It was awesome. I slowed down maybe subconciously to watch them. The littlest was bah bah bah'ing and throwing out his words, "wak wak" he wanted down, he wanted to walk. I was thinking, I want to be like that. I hope we are. He was so attentive to her and looked so happy; if I didn't know any better it was like puppy love. But I bet it wasn't. I bet they just loved each other that much. I watched them till they got to their car and he quietly, strongly, went over and opened her door for her. She brushed a kiss on his cheek and got in. It was the most affirming thing I'd seen in a long while. It really made me smile. It definitely put me in an awesome mood.
We went to the movies tonight. Ricky Bobby Talladega Nights (hilarious). As I was walking in ahead of my honey to get tickets (he went to go park the car and had droppped me off to get the tickets) I saw another older couple. It was odd. They were just as happy. I'm not saying an older couple who is happy is unusual, I think it's great! What was odd was how close in proximity I got to two separate couples who were so up in age in one day. Like it was a sign. I heard what they were talking about. He was talking about his golf stroke and telling her how he had to line it up just so and you would have thought he was telling her how to hang the moon or that he hung the moon. Apparantly he had played golf today. She was looking at him and uh huh'ing and smiling. Just loving him and holding his hand. And we literally crossed paths, we walked the exact criss cross path of each other. We were so close and the original couple crossed my mind at that same second, that I thought, this is a sign. We will grow up to be this. I know it. I smiled at them and said excuse me and my smile was genuine because hokey as it sounds, it made my heart full.
Point to ponder: When you love someone so much, passion and all (and passion can be good and bad, high emotions can contain many things; mostly it's intense goodness though), can that last forever? I hope so, but really, can it? When you get older, in your 80's will the spark just be there? How hard will we have to work at it? Will all the life we have lived prior to that have been the precursor to the ride or will it just be part of the ride?
Before my husband and I got married and made that special committment in front of our families and God, he told me to get ready for the ride of my life. It has been. It so has. So many ups. A few intense downs. In fact we've had enough downs to last the rest of our lives. But I know, more will come. One almost happened the other day. Lucas was there, God was there, and a horrible accident was thwarted. I thought it was the most romantic thing ever when he said that to me; get ready for the ride of your life. And at key times since then, he has asked me how the ride has been so far or warned me the ride was just getting good etc. 'The ride'.
I wish for our ride to be never ending. We say to each other, I'll love you forever, even in Heaven. I'll come find you in Heaven. In that thought, our ride will be never ending. I can only hope when we are as old as those folks today, we are still that happy, chattering away, laughing at each other, him leading me and opening doors for me now and then. At dinner, after the movie, we sat and quietly talked. We checked on the boys and called home, but we enjoyed ourselves.
The ride is good. It's the best ride I could have ever asked for. The perfect ride for me.
If you are reading this baby, stop now and know, I love you. Now and always.
Jenn
You cook, you clean, you go to work, you nourish, you love, you scold, you are professional and yet you hang your hat on every dust particle in your home. You are a woman. Some women are Moms and some are not. You are still a woman. We are all made similarly. We are strong.
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