{"id":232,"date":"2017-11-09T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/09\/twenty-seven-years\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:26:52","slug":"twenty-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/09\/twenty-seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Seven Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Barnes<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

Last week we celebrated our twenty-seventh wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n

Twenty-seven years.<\/p>\n

I might as well resign myself to the fact that we are no longer young.<\/p>\n

However, for two not-quite-old-but-no-longer-young people, we managed to have a very good time. My parents offered to have the kids spend Friday night at their house and we decided to check into a hotel near them. Since we only had twenty-four hours it didn’t make sense to spend four of those hours driving back and forth between our house and my parents’ house. So we dropped the kids off, went out to eat, and then went to a bookstore. Because what else would you do on your anniversary? My husband is a good and patient man. I didn’t actually buy any books because I didn’t come across anything I just had to have and I don’t really buy books I can easily get at the library. But it is always nice to browse.<\/p>\n

The next day we went out for breakfast and then for a walk on the rail trail. It was a gorgeous, sunny day. We used to walk this trail all the time when the kids were little and we lived in the area. Sometimes I miss having little kids.<\/p>\n

\"Vernon<\/a><\/div>\n
\"Vernon<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\"Vernon<\/a><\/div>\n
\"Vernon,<\/a><\/div>\n

We also stopped at a little park in the area and sat in the sunshine reading the newspaper and eating snacks. It was quiet and relaxing and exactly what we needed.<\/p>\n

\"Northwest<\/a><\/div>\n
\"Northwest<\/a><\/div>\n

Then we went back to my parent’s house for dinner. The kids were only moderately happy to see us since they felt one day was not enough time to squeeze in all the things they wanted to do. That’s okay though. We felt the same way.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t an exciting anniversary. We didn’t do anything amazingly special or go anywhere exotic. We puttered around doing things we have done a hundred times before. But, really, that is what made it special. After twenty-seven years we have the memories, the traditions, and the routines that we have built together.<\/p>\n

And after twenty-seven years we are just happy to be together, browsing through a bookstore, walking a trail, and eating ice cream in bed.<\/p>\n

The fact that we still feel that way after twenty-seven years is special enough for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week we celebrated our twenty-seventh wedding anniversary. Twenty-seven years. I might as well resign myself to the fact that we are no longer young. However, for two not-quite-old-but-no-longer-young people, we managed to have a very good time. My parents offered to have the kids spend Friday night at their house and we decided to check into a hotel near them. Since we only had twenty-four hours it didn’t make sense to spend four of those hours driving back and forth between our house and my parents’ house. So we dropped the kids off, went out to eat, and then went to a bookstore. Because what else would you do on your anniversary? My husband is a good and patient man. I didn’t actually buy any books because I didn’t come across anything I just had to have and I don’t really buy books I can easily get at the library. But it is always nice to browse. The next day we went out for breakfast and then for a walk on the rail trail. It was a gorgeous, sunny day. We used to walk this trail all the time when the kids were little and we lived in the area. Sometimes I miss having little kids. We also stopped at a little park in the area and sat in the sunshine reading the newspaper and eating snacks. It was quiet and relaxing and exactly what we needed. Then we went back to my parent’s house for dinner. The kids were only moderately happy to see us since they felt one day was not enough time to squeeze in all the things they wanted to do. That’s okay though. We felt the same way. It wasn’t an exciting anniversary. We didn’t do anything amazingly special or go anywhere exotic. We puttered around doing things we have done a hundred times before. But, really, that is what made it special. After twenty-seven years we have the memories, the traditions, and the routines that we have built together. And after twenty-seven years we are just happy to be together, browsing through a bookstore, walking a trail, and eating ice cream in bed. The fact that we still feel that way after twenty-seven years is special enough for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-happy-things","category-life-lately"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}