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Simple Sunday- Love and Weirdness

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whos weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness- and call it love- true love.” ― Robert Fulghum, True Love

It’s slightly ridiculous to think that 12 years and a day ago, the Husband and I decided that we matched each other’s weirdness and decided to call it love. Since then we’ve gone through happy times, sad times, ridiculously goofy times, and above all, together times! Happy Anniversary and many more adventures to come to us!

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Thoughtful Thursday- Married Life Adventures

Happy 11 years to the Husband who supports me in my crazy moments, laughs with me (or at me) in my nerdy moments, uses aggressive positivity when I’m down on myself, and still finds time to go on adventures with me! Here’s to more years of adventures, love, and puppy snuggles! Please enjoy some pictures of some of our adventures through the years!

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Simple Sunday- Anniversary Edition

“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”-Homer

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”-Rita Rudner

“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”-Franz Schubert

“The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.”-A. P. Herbert

“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.”-Ogden Nash

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”- Simone Signoret

“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.”― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe – these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.”― Madeleine L’Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

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Simple Sunday- Romance

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Love is a luxury.”
“No. Love is an element.”
An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
― Janet Evanovich

“I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live – if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

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Simple Sunday- Love

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”― C.S. Lewis

“It’s okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Before this week, I never realized that real-life romance isn’t like the movies. Things don’t have to be so serious and intense all the time. You can have intensely serious feelings for someone and be silly with them. You can go from making out to laughing, and back to making out, and that’s okay.”
― Dallas Woodburn, The Best Week that Never Happened

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Simple Sunday- Dogs Are Love

“Dogs are actually very smart, it’s just that they’re rather clumsy, but it’s this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.”― Hiromu Arakawa

“Scratching Yogi’s ears Michelle says ‘That’s just part of his job, the comforting. That’s what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he’s more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being.” This is a trait that more “people” should encompass.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction

“You can’t replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that’s not to say you shouldn’t get more dogs and people in your life.”― Polly Horvath, One Year in Coal Harbor

“Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move…the combination “lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance.” In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it.”― David Rosenfelt, Leader of the Pack

“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”― Robyn Davidson, Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

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Simple Sunday

‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”-Alice Walker

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“She had gradually discovered that the best response to glorious, unexpected happiness was not to seek explanation for its appearance but simply to embrace it and be glad.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”- Carl Jung

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”-Elie Wiesel

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Simple Sunday- Happy Birthday, Mom!

“A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb

“I decided if you’re lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.”-Mary Steenburgen

“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln

“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.”-William Barclay

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”-Mark Twain

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Simple Sunday- Dogs

“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” – Charles de Gaulle

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.” – Christopher Morley

“You don’t realize how much a dog’s presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.”-Meghan Daum

“A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well – almost.” – Charlotte Gray

“A well trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it.”  – Helen Thomson

“Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.”-Mary Oliver