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Finding Beauty in Every Face & Place – Opposites celebrate an anniversary

A Beautiful Life

10 Jul

We are coming up on 32 years of marriage this next week.  And we almost didn’t make it oh, so many times because never in all your days have two more opposite people attracted.  Oh, it was electric when we were dating – the sheer energy of opposite backgrounds and tastes and desires. The brainiac and the beauty-lover met and fell head over heels.  But, I’m here to tell you, sometimes, and in some seasons, it just felt like we were falling; but, we always got back up, dusted ourselves off and went on.  And that is love. And that is one of the reasons we are celebrating our thirty-second anniversary a few days early. Well, that and the fact that we have just been through a very harrowing experience the last few days.  We are just celebrating early.

Over the years our young love grew into seasoned years where our differences turned into “games” of him going by the thermostat and turning it down to meat locker settings while I’d inch it up to more of a sauna setting. I’d turn every lamp on in the house and he would go around and turn them all off.  He has a quick wit and loves to speak out his opinion like a firecracker and I mull *things* over like a skier in front of the fire with time to think about *things* and discuss them with “more words than anyone he knows!”  He loves history, and to read and gather books while I enjoy poetry, art, and magazines.  He does not care when I have rooms painted periwinkle.  Only when we played a newlywed game upon first moving to Tennessee did I find out that the sticks (vases of branches that I display like corkscrew or pussywillows) are some of the very things he would first run over with a monster truck.  Who knew?   He loves meat and potatoes and my favorite is a tomato sandwich with Dukes, which would never ever cross his lips.  He was not one bit interested in meeting Calista Flockhart when we sat two chairs apart at a play.  On the other hand, I moved down and we chit-chatted for the whole intermission. He is practical and oh, so musically talented.  I love to travel and he is content to stay home.  I am an early bird and he is a night owl.  I enjoy making our home beautiful and he will start singing a song about making me the queen of a doublewide trailer with polyester curtains.  What is he even thinking about polyester and curtains in the same sentence?  I enjoy fashion and most of my earrings are beyond our lifestyle while he is very polo and khakis. And he uses that blasted Turbo setting on the toaster and if I forget to turn it back to normal where it should be, will flambé every piece of Ezekiel Bread I toast. In almost every area imaginable, we are opposites.  Think about that young whippersnappers:  the very *things* you find cute, can turn into irritations if you let it.  So my words of wisdom, continue to embrace the opposites in the other that attracted you in the beginning.  Continue pursuing. Continue loving. Continue celebrating.

Every day is a gift.

We are just stopping and celebrating early because on Wednesday this week, The Salesman started feeling really bad.  Bad like he felt on June 11, 2018 when his widow maker was blocked.  And on Thursday morning of our 31st year, 359 days in, and 3 hours in of our marriage, he turned a lamp on, looked at me and said, “It’s time to go.”  We slid on clothes and headed to the emergency room and The Salesman had a blockage in his heart stented.  It was a scary time for him and as his time in the lab exceeded an hour, more and more tears fell from my face.  In the end, the procedure was successful.

Knowing that he was not feeling well, I packed a bag the night before with his med list, phone charger cords, essential oils, – all the important things and was ready to grab and go when he said it was time.  But when we got to the hospital, I found that he had brought one thing: his brown blanket.  So, we draped his practical brown blanket over his recovering, bare foot body.  I had my brown relief floral patterned blanket draped over my legs with my pointy toe thrifted heels showing from the edges.  And there we were, celebrating our anniversary early, The Salesman in the hospital bed and me in the side chair; but, we were there together with brown blankets and celebrating our 32nd early. This is us.  So happy 31 years, 359 days and 3 hours.

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  1. Glenda Koukos says

    July 10, 2020 at 8:12 am

    Well, first of all, so we’ll written and capturing of the heart. A love story that keeps one needing to read more. I am sorry to hear of the early celebration cause, but happy for Gary Ray to be celebrating his almost 32 years. Love and prayers for his recovery and hope for a more peaceful 33 year celebration next time.

    • Lora says

      July 12, 2020 at 8:36 pm

      Thank you for your kind words, Glenda.

  2. mindy says

    July 10, 2020 at 8:35 am

    Lora, so thankful the Lord prompted Gary to go to the hospital! Praying for a good recovery

    • Lora says

      July 12, 2020 at 8:36 pm

      Yes, me too! We so appreciate your prayers for a good recovery.

  3. Cynthia Broaddrick says

    July 10, 2020 at 12:09 pm

    Wow, now I see how the hospital trip came to be. I love all your words. Praying for him. Praying for you.

    • Lora says

      July 12, 2020 at 8:38 pm

      Yes, the rest of the story! Thank you kindly for your encouraging words and for your prayers for both of us. We are so blessed.

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When I got the message to pet sit last week, they also mentioned there were flowers on the kitchen table…

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Henceforth, my borrowed bouquet for Valentine’s Day. 

I was so happy to step in and enjoy the beauty. 

Now, I want to share it with you and say:

Happy Valentine’s Day! 
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I have never seen anything like what I saw when I I have never seen anything like what I saw when I walked in Walmart this last week. 

Right there where they normally have fresh berries and Grainger county tomatoes and such, was a Valentine’s Day floral display the size of an above ground swimming pool. 

And I wanted to dive in the deep end. 

There were blooms as far as my eye could see and there was no way possible to get every one in the picture, though I tried. 

I wish you lived in my town and we’d go enjoy them together. 

It’s going to be a beautiful Valentine’s Day! 

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Happy weekend, friends! ♥️ I’m raising my Happy weekend, friends!

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I’m raising my red drink to the weekend! 

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And since Valentine’s Day is coming up, why not make drinking it festive with the glassware?!? 

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Swipe right for a graphic of all the antioxidants in this super juice. 

And here are two recipes to try:

♥️Just the Two of Us♥️
2 ounces NingXia Red
1 tube NingXia Nitro
4 ounces coconut water
2 ounces mineral water
1 drop Lime Vitality essential oil

♥️Sparkling NingXia♥️
2 ounces NingXia Red
2 ounces club soda or sparkling water
1 can NingXia Zyng
1 drop Orange Vitality essential oil

You can also dip the rim of your glass in icing and holiday sprinkles OR use Greek Yogurt and THM Gentle Sweet.

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Making the holiday healthy and fun!

Happy Valentine’s weekend! 

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Spray away because we made the perfume with 100% plant juice!

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No toxins for us. 

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We may have had *festive Ningxia* too! 

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“Sometimes you have church in buildings that don “Sometimes you have church in buildings that don’t have steeples” is how I’d describe my visit to the hair wizard this week. 

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God is so good to intertwine cousins, curls, and church. 

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I’m carrying forward the childhood joy of openin I’m carrying forward the childhood joy of opening my Raggedy Ann lunch box to find mama had cut my sandwich out with heart shaped cookie cutters.

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It’s the little things.

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I got my mama’s heart shaped cookie cutters out & am serving love & beauty with heart shaped, & heart healthy, Trim Healthy Mama Blender Freezer Waffles. Shout out to the organic Aldi raspberries that appear to be heart shaped as well!

The waffles are Salesman approved. ♥️

I make an entire batch of the waffles & keep them in a refrigerator box so he can grab them just like a L’eggo My Eggo & enjoy the convenience of healthy, & now heart-shaped, waffles.

You can see the Salesman’s legs in the background of one of the pictures of me trying to capture the perfect picture of the heart shaped waffles.  I stepped out on the back porch, which is right outside his office, and he came out to see what I was doing.  And let me tell you, he had a good laugh seeing me trying to get the picture perfect shot of my plate of love!  After he ribbed me a bit, I told him that I really enjoyed taking pictures, & he then shared a nugget, or two, about the photography industry.

This is us. ♥️

This is me carrying on a tradition my mama started of making sweet memories for holidays & special occasions. It did not cost any money to use my childhood cookie cutters, it was just a sweet, and delicious, investment of time.

The most beautiful memories are tied with heart strings & not purse strings. ♥️
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A beautiful Sunday to you, my friends! The groce A beautiful Sunday to you, my friends! 

The grocery store flowers were scrunched all together in preparation for Valentine’s Day. 

Do you have a favorite bouquet among these pictures? 

Let me know and it will be virtually yours today. 

Sending love and flowers to you today. 
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