Dancing in the Minefields.

Matt and I just celebrated our 15th anniversary. He took me (and baby Kaden) to Salem Oregon to see my favorite comedian, Tim Hawkins, perform live. The show was amazing and I laughed so hard the entire time.

Matt reserved a room at the Grand Hotel that had a large jet tub in the corner of the room. We had looked at it before, but me being the miser that I am had said that Motel 6 would work just as well. Matt, being the perfect guy that he is made the reservation without informing me. Thank you babe!

Saturday we relaxed the majority of the day and then went scouring antique shops and had lunch at the food court. Totally reminiscent of our dating and early marriage when we were too poor to do much else except sit at the food court and people watch… It’s still a good, cheap date.

I love it that we are in such a comfortable place that we can spend a weekend just doing nothing… that we don’t have to do anything to fill our time together. That he recognizes my need to veg in front of my trash TV without children around. That this need is required if I am to maintain any sense of sanity.

This has turned into one of my favorite songs. I heard it first a few months ago and thought how coincidental it was that the first lines described our situation. he was 19, I was 21 and we have now been married 15 years.

More than that though the song spoke of marriage not being perfect, being harder than you had imagined it would be, but ultimately of being worth all the sacrifice and in the end having someone who will bring you back when you lose your self, of having someone who will take care of you.

I also fell in love with the video. I have always had a soft spot for older couples. I love how cute they are, how intertwined they are, how one moves with the other in a seamless, non-hesitating manner, of knowing that they have most likely spent a lifetime of experiences with each other and having done such are inexplicably bonded.

Can’t wait until some young newlywed watches my hubby and me dancing and thinks the same thing about us.

Well I was 19 you were 21
The year we got engaged
Everyone said we were much to young
But we did it anyway
We got the rings for 40 each from a pawnshop down the road
We said our vows and took the leap now 15 years ago
Chorus:
We went dancing in the minefields
We went sailing in the storm
And it was harder than we dreamed
But I believe that's what the promise is for
Well ‘I do' are the two most famous last words
The beginning of the end
But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin
Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down
And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found
Chorus:
And we're dancing in the minefields
We're sailing in the storm
This is harder than we dreamed
But I believe that's what the promise is for
That's what the promise is for
Bridge:
So when I lose my way, find me
When I lose loves chains, bind me
At the end of all my faith
to the end of all my days
when I forget my name, remind me
Cause we bear the light of the son of man
So there's nothing left to fear
So I'll walk with you in the shadow lands
Till the shadows disappear
Cause he promised not to leave us
And his promises are true
So in the face of all this chaos baby
I can dance with you
Chorus:
So lets go dancing in the minefields
Lets go sailing in the storms
Oh lets go dancing in the minefields
And kicking down the doors
Oh lets go dancing in the minefields
And sailing in the storms
Oh this is harder than we dreamed
But I believe that's what the promise is for
That's what the promise is for