Last night E, the kids and I watched two shows at the same time. We flipped back and forth between “American Inventor,” (which is Monkey’s favorite show) and PBS’s “The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song,” in honor of Paul Simon. We’d watch the Paul Simon show between commercials on the inventor show. We were lucky enough to have James Taylor’s rendition of “Still Crazy After All These Years” fall perfectly (and entirely) in a commercial break.
After the song, I commented to E that that is why we’re are still together, and why our marriage is still so strong: we’re both “still crazy, after all these years.” We recently (on May 29) celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary. We’ve been together for 20 years total. In writing and out loud, twenty years seems like a long time…. Sometimes it’s strange to sit back and realize just how long it’s been. Seems like just yesterday we were two high school band geeks; now we’re 20 years older, raising another generation of band geeks.
I hope our kids will always appreciate what a good, strong, happy family we have. If we (and the world) are lucky, when they are grown and leave our home, they’ll find their own crazy spouses out in the crazy world, and have their only crazily happy families.
