My mental hard drive is filled from 29 years worth of marriage memories

It's our 29th anniversary today and it's Father's Day.  As we get ready to whoop it up today to celebrate starting with church, I am loaded down with wonderful memories from almost three decades.  What do I remember as I get ready to hop into the shower?  Here goes:

• The best part of a mission trip to Mali in West Africa a few years ago was when I returned to our local airport and Gladys was waiting for me with a big smile at the bottom of the escalator.
• Waiting for me in the parking lot with the kids in the back seat at lunch time so they could take me out to eat at McDonalds.
• Seeing Gladys walk down the hallway at the hospital towards me the night my mom died.
• Watching her interact with her students in her third grade classroom and seeing how much she enjoyed teaching.
• Working with the kids when they were very young to fill her pre-school classroom with balloons to celebrate her birthday.
• The loving look on her face when I caught up with her in a local grocery store on a Friday morning and seeing her unflappable look after telling her I had just been fired from my job.
• Working together on a homemade video where she taught youngsters how to make change.
• Being there with her for the birth of both kids.
• Many, many walks through the neighborhood talking about issues in her classroom helping me see the importance of teachers and the complexity of teaching.
• Sitting side-by-side when we took our Beagle to the vet to have her put to sleep.
• Being on our downstairs couch watching tv as she worked at her desk putting together lesson plans.
• Working through our daughter's first ear infection when she was an infant and not knowing why she wouldn't stop crying.

I could go on.  The memories are rich and they are vast and I thank God for each and everyone of them.  We continue to make more.  I have been blessed by being married to Gladys and I continue to be blessed.

To God be the glory.  It's all a gift from him and I know that.