My how time flies...

...when you're having mega fun.

As usual, I'm going to sprinkle this blog with photos.

On June 30th, it was my and hubby's 31st wedding anniversary. Nope, we didn't celebrate. I had a book due, so I spent the day writing, writing, writing and was rewarded with FINALLY being done. Sending that puppy off was about the best gift I could have gotten.

Hubby spent the day with our youngest who opened his own barbershop that day. Pretty cool, huh? More rewarding than anything else, is seeing my kids do well.

We did squeak in time for a few movies and dinner out with friends a few days after the fact. The thing is, we've been an item since we were 17 years old, and now we're 50 and a 1/2. LOL

Not to be mushy or overly dramatic, but we're so good together, an anniversary can't really be any more special than the day before or the day after.

That's a photo of us a few years after we married. Still so young - my face is super-round and my husband has all his hair! ---------->

A good example of how he cares for me in special ways for no reason at all... I was running late on this book, right? Mega stress for me. The whole deal of switching publishers and leaving one book half finished to start over on a new book that would tie up the SBC series before leaving Berkley, really put me a crunch. No one's fault, just a reality.

Hubby knows I write better when I'm off at a quiet RV park without distractions, so there we went. My favorite local spot is on a big lake, but also with a nice pool and a sandy beach. We parked in the woods for the sake of privacy. The weather was gorgeous and no one bothered me.

But with 3 cats at home, I would have felt guilty - except that Allen drove back and forth (a smidge over an hour) each day. He'd have breakfast with me, then pack up his stuff and go to the house to check on the cats and visit with them, then off to the gym (he goes daily) and then he'd pick up an early supper and be back with me by 4pm. We spent most evenings walking and swimming and I managed about 47 pages in 3 days. Not too bad!

My husband does all kinds of special things for me, like bringing me home flowers for no reason at all. Or making a phone call to a pesky relative so I don't have to. LOL. He makes the bed in the morning, fixes my coffee each night and sets the timer so it's ready when I wake up - and he doesn't even drink coffee! Best of all, I know when I'm not around, he babies my littlest dog (who is now an old man with lots of issues) the same way I would.

<---- That's a picture of us at Kings Island when we were still teenagers. My God, we look like babies! LOL And now that I'm older, I think we pretty much were. We met the 3rd day of our sophomore year of HS, and I knew he was the one.

What about you? How did you and your significant other meet?

Is there anything special that your husband does for you? A special way that you celebrate the important times?

Feel free to share one of your fondest memories, maybe something he did that really meant a lot to you.

I have too many of those stories to share, and have probably told you all of them already. :-) But I'd love to hear yours!

Readers often say they wish they could meet heroes like the ones in my books. Well, they might not look like my guy, but at heart, where it matters, they're *all* him.

I'm looking forward to another 31 years!

Happy upcoming 4th of July to all of you!
Be safe, and have fun!