12/3/2025 Just Wait!

When you as a couple are dating everyone says just wait until your married as if marriage is a burden.

However, I feel those people have it wrong.

It's not as if the “just wait until…” scale seems to be sliding further and further away no matter how long you’ve been married.

My husband, Carl, and I were married for almost 36 years.

I am determined to tell anyone who will listen just how amazing marriage can be! Marriage is a gift from God!

Just wait… until your wife hatches a plan to build a porch for your parents and you remember how much you love her and her compassion.

Just wait… until you find the love note he hid around the house for you to find during the day.

Just wait… until you get to open your lunch bag to read the love note she wrote you that morning.

Just wait… until your husband comes home from work and the first thing he does is run, literally run, to find you, wrap his arms around you and give you a “hello I'm home kiss."

Just wait… until you see your wife hovering at the door as you come home from work, with a huge smile on her face, so happy to see you, and she surprises you with a scrumptious meal, a clean house, and plans for the future: fruit of a grueling day while you were at work, and all out of love.

Just wait… until your husband pulls a dozen beautiful multicolored flowers from behind his back, in the middle of the week, for no other reason than he loves you and knows you love surprises.

Just wait… until when you serve food for the two of you and he insists you have the warmer dinner, the choicest portion of meat, and the bigger cookie, just because he loves to see you smile.

Just wait… until he changes his routine and brings his grade book over to work with you on the couch because he knows you enjoy his presence.

Just wait… until you two really realize for the first time that you are not just “her” family, not just “his ” family, but your own family.

Just wait… until your husband tells you every day that you’re his & the most beautiful bride and he’s the luckiest guy in the world.

Just wait… until she giggles every time you act goofy and you do it just to make her smile.

Just wait… until your husband hold his baby for the first time, and he instantly melts, and you are reminded for the billionth time how good of a dad he will be and is to your children.

Just wait… until you see your wife cradling your infant in her arms, and she instantly knows everything to do to calm them, and you are reminded for the billionth time how good of a mom she is to your children.

Just wait… because you have so much joy ahead of you…

Nana