Now for the really good times

-Learning that you get to take the train to Detroit and spend the Christmas holiday with your newly found sweetheart.
- Finally having a girl that you adore agree to marry you for the eternities
- At last, kneeling across the altar with your eternal soulmate as you are sealed to each other
- Realizing that your days of curling up in bed by yourself may indeed be over
- Opening all the presents at the biggest party you have ever attended and realizing that you and your wife are the guests of honor
- Letting out a big sigh of relief when you are reminded that the dating scene is behind you
- Soaring to undreamed of heights as you experience one of those intimate moments intended to be shared only by married couples
- Setting out on your first great married adventure as you load everything you own into the Chevy Impala convertible and head for Michigan
- Driving over the summit by Silverton CO and looking out as far as the eye can see, as well as down a long long ways
- Stopping at your first motel in Dodge City Kansas and finding out you have a private garage
Great for hiding that car full of all that you own
- Arriving in Michigan only to have another reception and get even more presents
- Shopping for furniture to decorate your first apt at the Salvation Army
- Coming home from work to the girl of your dreams and being greeted at the door with a kiss
- Arriving home from school to find that the bed was already warm
- Going down to the Detroit river and making my first attempt at water skiing
-Seeing my showoff brother-in-law face plant into the river and lose his sunglasses as he tried to start skiing while sitting on the dock
- Heading out on my second great married adventure as we headed for Alabama with my brother-in-law and his wife
- Spending the night in our pop up tent camper halfway between Westland MI & Opeleika AL
- Running like the dickens to avoid the aftermatch when the dynamite a new found relative had planted in an old dead tree goes off - there was wood flying everywhere- it was crazy
- Meeting my firsts family who had a large color tv but no indoor plumbing
- Taking a shower with the garden hose out in the yard in a makeshift shower stall.
- Being thankful for all that I have as I saw a level of poor I had never before experienced
- Coming back home to the tiny apt that we call our own
- Having the shop where I worked only about 200 feet from the house
- Being able to come home for lunch and perhaps a bit of afternoon delight
- Learning that all the intimacy we had been sharing was the cause of my wife's nausea, we were going to be parents, ready or not
Well enough for today even though the good times keep rolling on. I will try to discuss the next chapter in my life during a future post. In the meantime, hug the person you care most about ( and it can't be yourself ), kiss everyone that you dare and tell all that you meet to enjoy their own special good times.