For the next few days I'll be featuring some of my favorite bloggers. I asked them one simple question, "Where do you see you and your husband in fifty years?" Feel free to leave your answer in the comments...I'd love to feature your comments in a post later!
Tonight's guest blogger is one of my favorite Marine wives and mommies, Tiffanie. After reading her guest post, make sure you show her some love over at her blog. Thank you Tiffanie!!
I've never been asked to be a guest blogger so I hope I'm doing this right.
My name is Tiffanie, I am a proud Marine Wife & blessed Mommy of two beautiful babies...so far... ;o)))
It's hard to really imagine what I'll be like at the age of 75...being married for 56 1/2 years!!!
But I believe one day I will be there, unless God decides other wise...
I just have random thoughts about what it might be like...but I know it will still be as happy with my LoverBoy as the day I married him...May 21, 2004!
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
It's true...we met online! In a Yahoo! chat room...you remember those chat room days?!
I was 18 & he was 20...
we met online in December 2003...my parents had talked to him several times on the phone & I ended up driving down to Camp Pendleton the last weekend of January 2004 from my home in Northern California to see him for the first time...EVER...I hadn't even seen a picture of him until I stopped half way at his parents house to make sure he was a Creepy McCrepperson...no I'm not kidding...I met his ENTIRE family before I met him.
We spend the whole weekend together & it was wonderful!
He respected me & that I didn't want for our relationship not to be based on anything physical & he agreed. When I was getting ready to head home on Sunday, he got teary-eyed & asked me not to leave...he wanting to go get married.
As much as I knew I was already in love with him before we had even met & knew I wanted to marry him, I declined. I told him that it wasn't how I wanted to get married...I wanted my family to be there & wanted the white dress & all that fuss I had always dreamed about!
Soooo....
2 weeks later on Valentine's Day he got on one knee & proposed at his Nana's house on the porch swing while we were outside talking about life & looking at the stars...it was just us...simple & perfect! Yah...we knew each other in person a whole 3 1/2 months before we got married...but we knew that we we're in love & wanted to spend eternity together!
I hope we're surround by grandbabies & great-grandbabies!
I pray that my children have someone who respects & loves them for who they truly are, that they are as crazy in love as their Daddy & myself!
I hope I'm NOT living in a retirement home...HAHA...but as long as I was with LoverBoy I guess it wouldn't be too bad.
I really would rather be living in a beautiful simple country house on a nice piece of land with horses & maybe a couple goats...I don't know why I like goat's...but I do & it's definitely not because I like goat mild...yuck! :o)))
I hate thinking that my great-grandma, my grandparents & parents will probably all be in Heaven...but I pray that I've made them PROUD OF ME!
I see myself being an old silly lady, probably having a few more tattoos that I'll be proud to take to my final resting place.
I know I will still very best friends with several Marine wives I've grown to love & adore over the last 6 years & a few of my best friends from before my Marine Corps life.
I see myself STILL CROCHETING...but in a wood rocking chair on a wrap around pouch over looking our property.
I hope that I will have finished Beauty College by my 75th birthday...BAHAHA...there's always been a legitimate reason it's been put off since I got married!
I hope I will be healthy & fit...
I hope I've seen more of the world.
Like, IRELAND (*hint*hint* LoverBoy) maybe even a few times.
I imagine that we will have conquered the deployment that we are currently surviving, maybe even a few more.
I see myself still a very proud Marine Wife to a man who was proud & loved of every year he served, if things go how we'd like them to, he will be proudly retired from the Marine Corps.
I guess the most important part of what I hope for in 50 years...
that I am PROUD of the woman I've grown to be & that I am happy, TRULY HAPPY & can leave behind happiness for anyone that knew me when it is my time to go.
You can find my life story over at...
MY BLOG
Don't be offended that I haven't blogged too much lately.
It's true, I've been a slacker...trying to keep up with my babies & getting through this deployment are my first priority even if it means actually getting sleep & not having time to blog.
I'm of course on Facebook & you can add me as a friend there too...
If you'd like to see my creative side feel free to add Skull Stitches too! :o)))
It's hard to really imagine what I'll be like at the age of 75...being married for 56 1/2 years!!!
But I believe one day I will be there, unless God decides other wise...
I just have random thoughts about what it might be like...but I know it will still be as happy with my LoverBoy as the day I married him...May 21, 2004!
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."It's true...we met online! In a Yahoo! chat room...you remember those chat room days?!
I was 18 & he was 20...
we met online in December 2003...my parents had talked to him several times on the phone & I ended up driving down to Camp Pendleton the last weekend of January 2004 from my home in Northern California to see him for the first time...EVER...I hadn't even seen a picture of him until I stopped half way at his parents house to make sure he was a Creepy McCrepperson...no I'm not kidding...I met his ENTIRE family before I met him.
We spend the whole weekend together & it was wonderful!
He respected me & that I didn't want for our relationship not to be based on anything physical & he agreed. When I was getting ready to head home on Sunday, he got teary-eyed & asked me not to leave...he wanting to go get married.
As much as I knew I was already in love with him before we had even met & knew I wanted to marry him, I declined. I told him that it wasn't how I wanted to get married...I wanted my family to be there & wanted the white dress & all that fuss I had always dreamed about!
Soooo....
2 weeks later on Valentine's Day he got on one knee & proposed at his Nana's house on the porch swing while we were outside talking about life & looking at the stars...it was just us...simple & perfect! Yah...we knew each other in person a whole 3 1/2 months before we got married...but we knew that we we're in love & wanted to spend eternity together!
I hope we're surround by grandbabies & great-grandbabies!I pray that my children have someone who respects & loves them for who they truly are, that they are as crazy in love as their Daddy & myself!
I hope I'm NOT living in a retirement home...HAHA...but as long as I was with LoverBoy I guess it wouldn't be too bad.
I really would rather be living in a beautiful simple country house on a nice piece of land with horses & maybe a couple goats...I don't know why I like goat's...but I do & it's definitely not because I like goat mild...yuck! :o)))
I hate thinking that my great-grandma, my grandparents & parents will probably all be in Heaven...but I pray that I've made them PROUD OF ME!I see myself being an old silly lady, probably having a few more tattoos that I'll be proud to take to my final resting place.
I know I will still very best friends with several Marine wives I've grown to love & adore over the last 6 years & a few of my best friends from before my Marine Corps life.
I see myself STILL CROCHETING...but in a wood rocking chair on a wrap around pouch over looking our property.
I hope that I will have finished Beauty College by my 75th birthday...BAHAHA...there's always been a legitimate reason it's been put off since I got married!I hope I will be healthy & fit...
I hope I've seen more of the world.Like, IRELAND (*hint*hint* LoverBoy) maybe even a few times.
I imagine that we will have conquered the deployment that we are currently surviving, maybe even a few more.
I see myself still a very proud Marine Wife to a man who was proud & loved of every year he served, if things go how we'd like them to, he will be proudly retired from the Marine Corps.
I guess the most important part of what I hope for in 50 years...that I am PROUD of the woman I've grown to be & that I am happy, TRULY HAPPY & can leave behind happiness for anyone that knew me when it is my time to go.
You can find my life story over at...
MY BLOG
Don't be offended that I haven't blogged too much lately.
It's true, I've been a slacker...trying to keep up with my babies & getting through this deployment are my first priority even if it means actually getting sleep & not having time to blog.
I'm of course on Facebook & you can add me as a friend there too...
If you'd like to see my creative side feel free to add Skull Stitches too! :o)))
