Next weekend my parents will celebrate their 50th Anniversary! I’m so happy for them. They are the best couple and have been so through many things–together. I was visiting them, and an old friend told me, “I look to your mom and dad. They’re the couple that tells me that even if I can never have it, true love does exist and I hope on.” I’m still deciding what I can give them that will be meaningful. Ideas?
This last spring, my husband’s parents celebrated their 50th, too. The party for them was pretty epic. My mother-in-law loves to hear her children sing, and she’s an accomplished accompanist. For their gift, she requested a party where each of her children or grandchildren performed something for a talent show on the stage at the church after a potluck Mexican feast.
My husband and his siblings all chose songs they knew their parents love. There are eight kids, so a lot of songs, but the top five were these: More, On the Street Where You Live, Perhaps Love, Ten Minutes Ago, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. (I linked each one, if you want to see/hear on YouTube.)
It was such a sweet afternoon, with all twenty grandchildren offering something they’d practiced vocally or on an instrument. It made me think about the future with my husband, the coming thirty years. What will be our soundtrack?
