A Fifth year of love

I dont like cliches reader. I dont think anyone does. Cliches are a outward expression of an inward truth using words or phrases that other people have. Yet there are very little other options sometimes. To tell my wife, "happy anniversary." Would simply be a travesty. A travesty because I have been married to Doris for 5 years and I am no less grateful for her, as a youth is grateful when he gets a chance to date the prom queen, and so much astoundingly more in love with her than when we first came together that I could not find the words that would hold this meaning so all I can tell her is happy anniversary. Yes its cliche, yes its trite, but until we find something more honest than language then it'll have to do.

We celebrated our anniversary in two seperate circumstances. We went out to Hy's steakhouse for a delicious, but outrageously priced meal and then this past weekend we spent the day shopping and took in a movie.

God has given me this family and I couldn't be more grateful. I am honored that my wife is still and would consider me her best friend. I am deeply humbled by the challenge of raising a son and I am excited for this next year and what the giver of life has instore for us.