450th What was that like?

It has been a wonderful weekend. The wife and kids are a little worse for wear, but we survived. The Queen is drugged up for back pain, we just sent Princess on her way back to campus, Simeon has started reconnecting to friends and family, Tenor Man has dropped the fever and appears to be on the road to recovery, and Silver Horn has already put himself to bed.

We hope that everyone we spent the weekend with had as much fun as we did and have all made it home to find all is well. I also hope that the events of this weekend have been cause for pause and reflection. I know that it has given me and mine reason for such.

My parents started their lives together some 50 years ago this month. We don't hear about couples doing that much any more. It is a great miles stone in their lives. It made me wonder about my own relationship. My Queen and I have been together more than half of our lives. In another 28 some odd years, we hope to be celebrating the way we did this weekend, but from a different view point. We hope our children are willing to celebrate from that different view as well.

Last evening, we put our parents on the hot seat. They were questioned and drilled about specifics of the past 50 years. They did not have formulated answers written down, they just spoke the first thoughts that came to mind. They talked of childhood, school, dating, having children, and adventures they have endured. I am sure that if we had given them more time they would have been able to share more.

It was this experience that made me start reflecting. I was inspired again to start recording the memories I have and the little experiences that each of my children expect me to remember about them individually. I must admit that even today, I don't remember all the specifics. I need to be better.

As the Queen and I talked about the events and memories we have shared with our children, I started thinking about Adam and Eve. Did they celebrate their lives together. Adam lived to be some 900 year old. Eve joined the party shortly after he was put on earth. I don't think they were married right away, but if you think about just the half way mark. How many children did they have on Adam's 450th? What kind of gathering would it have been? Would they have been able to answer all the questions, their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren..etc., asked them? Did things change as drastically for them in 450 years as they seem to have changed for children in 50 or 60 years? It makes one wonder.

When it is all said and done, it is the memory of the time together that I cherish the most. I don't know that I will remember what I ate. I don't think I will remember who said what or did what, but I will remember that we were together. That is what I will cherish most. I hope you will do the same.