I wrote a post the other day titled Keeping the Marriage Strong, where I provided what I thought were the best tips from other bloggers who comment about married life.
I have additional, personal, actions that I have done since the first days of developing my relationship with my spouse, long before we married, that I thought I would add.
Continue reading
I am an avid reader. I see a number of blogs and articles about maintaining the most important relationship in the world: the relationship with a spouse. This post goes deeper into that relationship, and is written primarily for those who are married (or in permanently committed relationships as I considered the relationship with my man to be before we could legally married.)
Here is a summary of some of the best ideas I have read — and employ — to keep our marriage strong.
Continue reading
My faith is being tested again.
56 days… 56 days my spouse has been symptom-free from evidence of the toxins produced by bacteria from which he was infected by a tick bite several years ago.
A whole 56 days. If we got to 60 days…
Continue reading
Yesterday afternoon as I was relaxing with my spouse after a long hard day, I was seated next to him in our backyard gazebo, holding his hand, listening to the water flow in the waterfall in our pond, and doing nothing else.
I thought to myself,
Continue reading
My birthday is coming up, but I have already received the best gift from my spouse. What was it? New boots? Leather jacket? A new Harley?
Continue reading
I dunno, you decide…
Continue reading
I am, by nature, an optimistic person. I see an 350ml glass with 175ml of water in it, and I think the glass is “pretty full.” Not even half-full, but “more than enough to quench my thirst.”
I have always been that way. I cannot explain exactly why. Perhaps my parents had something to do with it, ensuring that we were happy and safe, well fed, loved, and cared for as we were growing up.
So my usual bright and cheerful outlook could not be withheld on Wednesday when I took my spouse for a routine visit with his doctor…
Continue reading
Usually I post a blog on Sundays with a routine, mundane, “what boots did I wear during the past week” post. But I have breaking news. I interrupt the pattern of this blog to exclaim,
CONGRATULATIONS! to a reader of this blog who…
Continue reading
I don’t quite know where I came up with that subject line… but here’s an update of random happenings in the ol’ BHD household…
Continue reading
Yesterday, Monday, I had the sad experience of driving my twin brother back to the airport for a long flight for him to return to his home in Italy. He has been here for one week … and, as usual, I could not have survived without him.
Words cannot express…
Continue reading