**Raspberry**

A little dose of perspective is good for a person.  It reminds me of the song a spoonful of  sugar makes the medicine go down.

We hadn't had a real break in 2 years.

Now, part of that is my own fault, I am not whining here.

2 years ago, we were in Hawaii for Spring Break.  Melissa had just finished her first reading  break at UBCO and Max was with the EC youth in Thailand.

We had never dreamed that we would have the opportunity to travel--unless we were doing short term missions.  And the biggest bonus was we got to be together in Hawaii.  (The picture at the top is from that trip)

What we didn't realize was the importance of us being together.  My Dad told me in 2000 that Kent and I should be going away "up to 9 times a year".  I was stunned....who can do that??  We have since learned the importance of carving out time for "just us".

We needed that time together, re-energize, because coming home we had no idea what was going to happen literally 2 weeks later. (The end was coming of Kent's work and that we had to look elsewhere for a job for him, we then started talking about selling our house and moving....)

We needed that time together to remember when the tough times were upon us, that we couldn't give up on each other, our kids or our faith in God.

And believe me, there were times we thought about it...but pushed it from our minds.

This weekend, we spent our weekend sleeping, walking, holding hands, talking, laughing and generally just amazed that we have been together 25 years.

So, to the neigh sayers of our past who said I married Kent to get away from my family.  To the rock throwers who said it wouldn't last, we would never make it.....

*raspberry*