These are my parents, Bill and Cathy German, on their wedding day April 24, 1959.  They just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They have  6 children ( I am the baby in case you were wondering) and 23 grand children.  They met in the navy and dated for only three months before they got married. Needless to say raising six children was not easy. They  never had a lot of money but they worked hard to care for their kids and provide for them the best they could.  With the divorce rate so high it is kind of rare in this day and age to see someone make it to 50 years of marriage.  So I thought it would just be nice to share that it still can happen. My dad writes poems and he wrote this one for their 50th. I just wanted to include it.

Once upon a time
As our story will show,
A young Navy coupld
Cupid shot with his bow

He was a sailor
She a cute WAVE in blue.
Three months of courting
And they both said “I do.”

In a small Navy Chapel
At Millington, Tennessee,
A few friends and no flowers
And the best part, it was free.

On April twenty-fourth
It will be fifty years.
A life full of blessings
With laughter and tears.

Not in the beginning
But now Christ leads our way.
We have been nothing but blessed
Is all we both can say.

Six lovely children,
A quiver full you see.
Brenda, Kenny , and Mike
Cindy, Dana and Jodee

To top everything off
As we’ve been in God’s hands.
We are ever so blessed
With twenty-three grands.

That’s our story for now
I will lay down my pen.
And if given a chance
We would do it again.