First you have the whole idea of Spring. I am a native Floridian. As such I have never fully adapted to the cold weather of the Midwest. With Spring comes the promise of new growth. The daffodils begin to burst forth and the buds begin to pop out on the trees.

Then there is the fact that it’s the month of my birth. Now, the older I get the less I like to think about birthdays…but they beat the alternative.

Finally, April is the month of my anniversary. We are well over the 20 year mark, pushing much closer to the 30 year milestone. My birthday and anniversary fall one week apart (ask me sometime and I will tell you the story of how that happened). In celebration of both we bought a new grill this year. The problem with purchasing a grill is that most of the time they are not put together. Oh, you can get them that way but you miss the sense of accomplishment that comes from putting all the little pieces together yourself.

We have found that these kinds of projects go much better when there are two of us working together. But there’s the rub…working together. Many times I have found myself working alone by the end of the project because I said something wrong, or said something right the WRONG way.

Well, this time things went well. We got the grill put together with only a couple of left over parts (and I’m sure they were just extras anyway.) The truth is working together is something you grow into. In fact, there is much of marriage that you grow into. Marriage has been likened to the jeans that we popular many years ago. If you want to know how, you need to click the link below. It will take you to an article by Marriage Partnership, a division of Christianity Today that talks about the fit of marriage. Whether you have been married a long or short time you will find some things to smile about in this article.