Me and Eddie – attending a wedding our first year of dating.
…the story continues…
Four years ago, I blogged about the night my husband Eddie and I met. It was Veterans Day eve 1982 and we met at a work happy hour and ever since then we’ve celebrated this momentous meeting. It’s always a fun reminder of where we started and a look at where we are today.
Dancing at a family wedding last year
This year we went through an exciting change as a couple. Eddie retired on August 1. He had planned to retire earlier in the year but stayed on at work a little longer due to the pandemic. About the time he retired, I was preparing to go back to work for 13 weeks with the United Way of Central Alabama’s annual fundraising campaign. Eddie got to experience a little of what I experienced when I retired three years ago, ahead of our original schedule. It’s hard to believe that we had both planned to retire together in June 2021. But here we are now…both retired and ready for phase three of our lives together.
Enjoying the Apollo Ball this year at Boutwell Auditorium
When we go out to dinner tonight, I know we will talk about where and how it all started between us. We will reminisce about the early days together, getting married and our early years together, having our family, building our home in Hoover, watching the kids grow up, countless soccer and softball games, band concerts, choir concerts, show choir concerts, girl scouts, boy scouts and everything else our kids were involved in over the years. We will talk a little about our careers and how quickly work life went by…even though at the time it seemed like retirement would never arrive! Most importantly, we will talk about what is next, where we will travel, home projects we have been wanting to complete, new hobbies we are excited to try and most importantly, how often we can be with our first baby grand. We always have a lot to talk about and thankfully, Eddie has a memory like an elephant so I count on him to keep me straight on events and dates. He may have all of these details in his head but I take photos of everything so together we make quite the pair!
Last year we headed to Firebirds for an early dinner and sat outside by the fire. We had the entire patio to ourselves too. Maybe it was because we went so early? I remember telling Eddie we must have looked like we were there for the senior specials! We shared some wine and an assortment of appetizers and then went home to enjoy a bottle of champagne. It was a perfect evening.
I’m not sure where we will celebrate this evening. I may let Eddie pick the place this year since he’s had a bit of a rough week and I’ll be driving us wherever we go anyway! You see, Eddie had a bit of a chainsaw accident last week that required stiches and a foot boot. You can bet we will be talking about that unfortunate incident at dinner too…and I may be blogging about it later! But I’ll let him make it up to me on January 4th for our 35th wedding anniversary…
Meanwhile, happy “first” anniversary sweetheart!
Southern Señora 