I'm Not Complaining!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
By: Shannon Wilburn

Okay, seriously, I’m not complaining! Milk it Babeeeeey!

This summer has been the summer of celebrations at my house! This year, July 2, to be exact…I turned 40 along with my twin sister, Tara. Our hubbies invited us to Seaside, FL in May along with our mom for a relaxing week on the beach. Okay…truth be told….we (me and my sis) actually planned the vacation ourselves and invited our hubbies and mom…like good bossy Texas girls do! We had a grand time of doing nothing except lounging at the pool, eating out, late night movies, strawberry shortcake and riding bicycles around the area in the 80 degree perfect weather (without kids). It was a wonderful “early” birthday present. Since that happened in May…I still had a good 5 weeks until my “real” birthday and I milked that for all it was worth too! (Isn’t that what we are supposed to do?)

Twenty years ago today…I married my best friend. Yes, today is my 20th wedding anniversary. My husband introduced himself to me in 1988 (yes, I know that most of you weren’t even born then) by using an acronym for his name. He, and a friend, strolled up to me at the student center at Abilene Christian University and he said “Hey, my name is Mitch….the M is for Macho, the I is for Intelligent, the T is for Tough, the C is for Courageous and the H is for Hot-legged-love-God”.

He likes to tell the story that I immediately wrapped my arms around him and said “Marry Me!” However, it wasn’t until almost 2 years later I married my best friend. Ft. Worth, Texas, August 11th, 1990…the big day. I wore this huge headpiece that I swear to my kids now, was in style at the time! I won’t grace you with that picture as I am trying to figure out what I was thinking!

20 years later tonight, my hubby is in California at a conference, I am home with 4 teenagers in the house (only two are mine). I’m on a muscle-relaxer, steroids and pain meds for a bulging disk in my neck (someone should have told me that doing the intermediate rafting in Colorado last week was not a good idea) and I’m reminiscing (by myself) about my wedding day and the last 20 years….which, by the way, went really fast!

Any other woman might feel sorry for herself that their hubby was gone on such a special day. However…Mitch made sure that I would have a wonderful day…even in his absence. We went out to eat last week for our anniversary and I thought that was just fabulous! Then, last night…I walked into our bathroom to find a card and a beautiful necklace…yes, my man went shopping for me! Today…after a couple of meetings….I came home to find a huge bouquet of flowers in the kitchen with another card. He had hid these in my daughters closet and told her where and when to get them out. What a great surprise.

Now for a shout-out and a nudge for those of us who are forming our boys into men. Thank you, Larry and Nancy Wilburn (or to us….Boomie and Nannie) for teaching your son how to be a wonderful, supportive, thoughtful Godly man! Please tell us how you did it! I can only hope and pray that our kids can learn from his example (not mine) of how to be a wonderful spouse.

Now you know why I’m not complaining. I’m older, I’m wiser and I am blessed! I think I’ll keep him for at least the next 20!

Hugs, Shannon Wilburn

PS. Don’t tell him I wrote this because I still plan on milking the absent anniversary for at least 3 more weeks!
 

Photo right: Check out my necklace and my flowers...Happy Anniversary to me!

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Shannon!! I was checking your website address for an ad that is running in Owasso and I just saw this post. I love hearing about happy marriages and people working hard and trying to honor God. When I see you on television, I always say..."There's one of the girls I went to college with, the one who gave me the baby shower for Brittany! She started her own company and I'm so proud of her!!" (My kids usually finish it for me because I've said it so many times. So glad you are doing well, Shelly Robinson

Shelly Robinson, Thursday, August 26, 2010

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