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I Want to Grow Old with You...



I wanna make you smile,
Whenever you're sad.
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad.
All I wanna do,
Is grow old with you.


I'll get you medicine,
When your tummy aches.
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks.
Oh it could be so nice,
Growin' old with you.

I'll miss you, kiss you,
Give you my coat when you are cold.
Need you, feed you.
Even let you hold the remote control.
So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink.
Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink.
Oh I could be the man,
Who grows old with you.

I wanna grow old with you.
~The Wedding Singer



You never realize what you really want in life until you think it's been taken away. I'm so grateful for a second chance at life, love and opportunity! I was thinking about the comment I made yesterday about being afraid of being that "old spinster with 20 cats", I never really realized how badly I wanted to grow old with someone. All those sentimental pictures of elderly holding hands, embracing their loved one not just with their hands, but with their hearts, smiling because even though they are 70, they love like they are still like newly-weds...I want that to be me! I want to be that person who can brag that they have been married for 50 years!

In one of the homes that I used to work for, there was a cute married couple with terrible Alzheimer's dementia disease and though they couldn't remember what they did last night, this morning or even two minutes ago, they could remember that they had been married over 60 years. They didn't recognize their children, but they certainly knew who each other were and daily throughout the whole day would remind each other that they loved each other. Even in the midst of a horrible disease, their love lives on and I feel it is what keeps each other going. I LOVE observing them together and always thought "I want to be just like that!". It's just a beautiful, unconditional love.

I know that this insert is getting long, but there is one song I have to share. I have heard this song probably a million times and STILL makes me tear up when I hear it: "Remember When" from Allen Jackson. It expresses EVERYTHING I want with the coming years. I wish this for all my readers as well! Don't take it for granted, do everything you can to hold on to your soul mate and love with every fiber of your being!


Live, Laugh, Love.
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