19 years of marriage
4 babies born
3 thriving daughters
1 stillborn son
1 miscarriage
3 homes
2 mortgages
5 major career changes
4 reductions in income
5 vehicles
2 university degrees
60 business trips
5 surgeries
100 soccer games
11 school Christmas concerts
7000 meals shared
2 fathers buried
2 grandmothers buried
3 cancer scares for close family
25 trips to emergency
2 summers spent in a trailer by the lake
20 tent-camping trips
1 near fatality in a tent fire
2 suicide attempts
10,000 tears
500 arguments
10 marriage counseling sessions
5000 apologies
5000 forgivenesses
100 reasons why this marriage should end
101 reasons why we should keep trying
2 broken people who said “for better or for worse”
1 imperfectly beautiful marriage
