With this hand…

Six years ago today a man did a crazy thing. This crazy thing was to stand in front of all the people in the world he and I hold dear, take my hand, and promise to never let go. Six years later we are still holding on. With our hands we have dug a foundation for a house, mixed and poured thousands of pounds of concrete, framed rooms, put on a roof, hung dry wall, installed windows, painted dozens of gallons of paint, sanded floors, hung siding, pounded in and drilled in dozens of pounds of screws and nails, written at least fifty papers and graded thousands, taken dozens of tests, signed teaching contracts, written an almost infinite amount of checks, voted, signed petitions, typed and written thousands of pages of text, held a baby in an oxygen tent, cleaned up puke, filled endless syringes, given injections, wiped faces/butts/and noses, put endless band aids on owies, thrown dirt on more graves then we would have envisioned possible, cooked enough meals to feed an army, washed more dishes than there are at one hundred state dinners, washed and folded more clothes than you would find in Macy’s, changed thousands of diapers, signed the title on and then done maintenance and repair on eight vehicles, changed a half dozen tires, turned hundreds of thousands of pages in books, driven hundreds of thousands of miles, picked bushels of every fruit and vegetable imaginable, canned and froze thousands of pounds of food, poured a small lake of coffee, dug holes and planted dozens of trees, planted almost 500 tomato plants, pushed mops/ brooms/vacuums/ and lawn mowers for hundreds of miles, put up at least a dozen Christmas trees, mailed more than one-thousand Christmas cards, filled more than three thousand Easter eggs, handed out over fifty pounds of Halloween candy, shoveled several tons of snow, washed hundreds of windows, snapped thousands of pictures, sewn miles of fabric, operated hundreds of different machines, and all of this while never letting go of each other. Thank you Clinton Christopher Conley for always holding my hand. I love you with out measure. I hope this is at least as good as a cheesy Hallmark card.