I hope everyone had a very nice holiday season! I found that during the holidays I am much more emotional when recalling memories of the past, I hope you can all understand my silence for the past few weeks.
I am moving on to a trip that caused me great anxiety as a newlywed it was the first Deer Hunt just 2 months after we were married. First I love animals and have never liked the idea of killing animals! But Kris had grown up hunting and both my sons hsve participated in this sport. So in October of 1979 we went hunting!! Now we were not alone Kris' best friend and his wife were coming, kind of like a weekend double date!!!! I thought okay this is going to be fun, until Kris explained that we were staying in his friends camper! Yes camper not a trailer! I was a little prissy to say the least at this time of my life I was not a camper type girl. Yes laugh!! So off we went on our Deer Hunting double date weekend. when we arrived at the location I suddenly realized that we had to use outdoor potty, and it was also like 30 degrees outside. by this point I was in despair complaining to my husband I noticed that he was amused by the situation. So I decided that I would put on my big girl panties and go along with it. We had a great rest of the day we hiked we sat up and played games and visited! it was fun!!! Thenit came time to go to bed I thought that our friends would take the bed above the cab of the truck it was a little more private, and besides I don't like closed in spaces. When it came for lights out Kris said here let me help you up I looked at him with the most terrifying look I'm sure, quietly I say oh are we sleeping up there? Kris nodes his head and tells me his friend has a bad back and they would be sleeping below. So trying to make the best of it up I go and Kris after me so now am I not only in a closed space I am also confined to the upper bunk closest to the end. I was not going to say anything but as the night wore on and there had been no sleeping for me I wake up Kris and explain that I can't sleep, I'm sure he was not happy with me, but what else could I do? So Kris and I did the role over so that Kris was in the closed in space and I could finally breathe!!
As I remember all of these events in my life I laugh because Kris had so much patience with me and my prissiness and he never complained at least not to me. He loved me so unconditionally and with his whole heart and I the same of him. Loving relationships are made up of 2 people loving each other more than themselves and are willing to understand,compromise and listen. No two people are raised exactly alike, making a relationship work takes both people working each day to make the other person happy and if your both working on the same thing your love will grow your family will succeed, and you will have a life time of LOVE!!
Always An Eagle
Strength,Dignity and Grace
