A very special 50th Wedding Anniversary!

He was nineteen, she was twenty. They met at the Blue Grotto, a

little dance hall in the beautiful German city of Augsburg 

Their courtship began when she walked over and told him,

You're sitting in my chair... They were married a few months

later on March 14, 1962 in the Catholic church across the street

from her mother's house. The same church where they would bring

their daughter and son to be baptized four and five years later... 

Today my parents celebrate fifty years of marriage and today,

we also know it was not her chair! I'm thrilled to say that at

sixty-nine and seventy years old, my parents are healthy and

happier than they have ever been. They always make it look

easy and perhaps it is... When all you ever need is love!

Happy Golden Anniversary, Mom and Dad. Thank you

for the wonderful example of love you set for me to follow!