Thirty-seven Years

At 7:00 in the evening, thirty-seven years ago, Edward and I were married in Austin, Minnesota. It's hard to believe that many years have gone by. I can remember celebrating our first anniversary. Your dad bought me an ironing board, and a big metal bowl for mixing up homemade bread. I no longer have the ironing board. It broke ages and eons ago, and I now have two--a little built-in-cupboard one that Ed uses, and a larger stand-alone board that I use (albeit less frequently!). I still have the aluminum bowl, and since I seldom make homemade bread anymore, I use it most frequently to mix up the apples for apple pie and for mixing the stuffing for Thanksgiving. Sometimes I use it for salads if I'm taking a salad to a carry-in dinner because it holds a lot, and I can feed more people.

For our second anniversary, we took our friends, Gary and Sally McDougall, out to dinner at the top of the John Hancock building in Chicago. At the time, our dinner tab was over $100. I wonder what that would be in today's dollars. Weren't we the big shots!

Please don't worry that I'm going to list our activities for all the anniversaries. I just wanted to mention the first two, and then tell you what Ed and I did after work today. We went to the Granite City restaurant in Fort Wayne with several of our dear friends, and enjoyed a lovely evening al fresco. It really was a perfect night. I wish I could have shared it with you all!

Anyway, no pictures. You'll have to imagine what Ed and I looked like in 1973, him in his cute bowtie, and me in my homemade wedding dress.