Carol ReMarks
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Celebrating 16 Years of Marriage and Family Milestones
Ever wondered what the most memorable moment in a marriage is? Join us as we reflect on a day filled with double celebrations—our 16-year wedding anniversary and our son's 28th birthday. We take a trip down memory lane, sharing stories of long drives to his military school and the unforgettable experiences of watching his late-night football games. These moments have shaped our journey as parents, and witnessing our son blossom into a wonderful man and father to our beautiful grandson fills us with immense gratitude for the life and family we've built.
Celebrating our wedding anniversary brings us back to the enchanting days of our Mediterranean honeymoon, where we explored the Greek isles, Ephesus, and more. These moments laid the foundation of our marriage, much like the humorous tale of when I decided to embrace baldness. The trust and support in our relationship have carried us through challenges and joyous times alike. Our upcoming celebration plans include a special anniversary dinner and a family gathering at Casablanca, our favorite Mexican restaurant.
As we mark these milestones, we invite you to share your most cherished marriage moments. What events have defined your journey together? As we wrap up this special episode, we extend our warm wishes to those celebrating anniversaries and encourage everyone to enjoy their weekends, cheering on their favorite teams. Thank you for being part of our story; we look forward to sharing more heartfelt experiences with you in future episodes.
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November 1st, happy anniversary and, I have to say it, happy birthday to our son.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Happy anniversary. My love and happy birthday, big guy. What a ride it's been.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's been awesome 16 years of marriage and our son is 28.
Speaker 2:That's just crazy, is he 28 years old.
Speaker 1:Really I believe so.
Speaker 2:So, wow, that's unbelievable. Not going into too much about life and the way it goes, grateful to be well. For us to be married 16 years is a bonus. For our boy to be 28 years old is a godsend. Yes, that's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 1:And has produced us a grandson.
Speaker 2:And a beautiful, beautiful baby boy. That is just. Wow is all I can say about that. Wow is all I can say, is all I can say about that.
Speaker 2:Wow is all I can say. You know I was thinking back to you know, long, long, long ago, in a far, far, far time away, when, you know, at one period of time in our lives, you know, I would get up at 4, go to work, work until 1 o'clock, get in the car, go down, drive down to school, pick him up, come home, get home at you know, 8 o'clock at night We'd go out to dinner. You know it'd be late. Then we'd drive him back on Sundays for just that period of time, you know, and I never thought we'd have gone through that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which was cool because I can remember, you know, and I never thought we'd have gone through that, which was cool because I can remember you know, For those of you who don't know, for a while he went to a school away from us like a military school four hours away, about four hours away.
Speaker 1:That's what he's talking about.
Speaker 2:And I can remember. One of the fond memories of that was when we went down to and there were a lot of fond memories. One of the fond memories was us getting in the car because it was four hours away and we had to go watch them play football.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we would drive to Birmingham and to almost Auburn and watch football games at night and then drive home, so it was late night doing that kind of thing. But, yeah, one of the fun memories was going down and watching drive home, so it was late night doing that kind of thing. But yeah, one of the fun memories of was going down and watching them play and it was really cold out one night and they were playing. A team that was in their small, small, small, small, small classification Was one of the better teams and had a couple of kids that were not going to be Division I. But you know Division, you know they go to Jacksonville State or something like that and our kids just couldn't match up with them, couldn't play with them. There was no way.
Speaker 2:But to see, you know, those kids playing as hard as they could and the coach on the other team knew that they were outmatched and you know, by the end of the first quarter you know he'd taken all his starters out and you know our kids were, you know, being able to play a decent football game against their, you know, young, young, young kids. So it was just fun to see those kids competing, knowing they didn't have any chance at all, and that was what high school football was about. That's what it's about, not what we really see on TV and all that stuff, but that's not the point. The point was it was going down and seeing our son play and enjoying that we would go get him every weekend Just about every weekend Drive down there and we'd drive back.
Speaker 2:It was an interesting experience. Learned a lot about a lot of things and it was fun. It was, but there's so much more in our lives that has been great.
Speaker 1:So you and I are going out for our anniversary dinner tonight and then on Sunday we're going out as a family. All of us are going to celebrate his birthday. Yes, and also just as a family dinner, just to get together. Right, absolutely. So it'll be you and I, our son and Ashley and Cameron, and then our daughter and her husband and then hopefully the other grandma, and hopefully the other grandma, so hopefully she'll make it.
Speaker 2:So we'll have a big crew eating some Mexican food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to go to Casablanca.
Speaker 2:Absolutely One of our go-to favorites. They do good, they got good food, they treat us well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we go there every week pretty much.
Speaker 2:Just about, just about, but anyway back to us being 16 years of marriage.
Speaker 1:16 years of marriage, your first marriage? Absolutely, I'm embarrassed to say I'm not going to say this is your second, We'll call it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely We'll call it your second. You were a child of the other ones. You didn't know what was going on, but yeah, this is your second Last. Well, I hope so. I mean, well, the only way I could see you getting married is if something Bad happened to me in the next year and a half, and then you know you moved on from there.
Speaker 1:Well, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2:No, it won't. But you know I think about my mom and our next-door neighbor God bless her who just passed away. Yeah, you know, they lost their husbands at older ages and, you know, remarried Now you know that was in the remarried in their 70s and had, you know, 15 extra years of marriage to another person. But you know that's a and it was wonderful. But anyway, going back to ours, let's think, think of I can think of so many great moments in our marriage. But we started out our honeymoon was, I was thinking, after our honeymoon, how do we top that, lord? We took a Mediterranean cruise for our honeymoon. I think we were 11 days at sea. Yes, well, think we were 11 days at sea.
Speaker 1:Yes, well, not all 11 days at sea.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what I mean. We were on the cruise for 11 days, or 10 days. Two days in Rome, 11 days Because we were off work for two weeks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we went to four Greek isles, then we went to Ephesus and Istanbul and then back to Naples and then not Santorini. I keep wanting to say what's the one where we saw the mozzarella cheese?
Speaker 2:Oh, that was. It starts with an.
Speaker 1:S? Oh, I never can remember that town, sorrento.
Speaker 2:Sorrento is the name of it. Where?
Speaker 1:we watched Maria make homemade mozzarella cheese.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:And we ate fresh.
Speaker 2:It was at a lemon farm, right yeah.
Speaker 1:Or a lemon farm.
Speaker 2:Lemon and olives.
Speaker 1:Olives, that's it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they, you know, Limoncello was there. You know that was. You know, every time you go on a shore cruise or shore excursion off a ship, part of the thing they're doing is trying to sell you. And yeah, they did. They tried to sell us Limoncello but we couldn't buy any. You and yeah, they did, they tried to sell us limoncello but we couldn't buy any. But anyway, that was a. You know, that was a. A hell of a start to a to a marriage. Hell of a trip. You know, and we've, we've done a lot of good things, we've had a lot of good times yes absolutely.
Speaker 2:Wow, I'm I. I, if I had to do it all over again, I'd in a heartbeat. Well, I hope so.
Speaker 1:Thanks, I was gonna to do it all over again. I'd do it in a heartbeat. Well, I hope so.
Speaker 2:Thanks. I was going to say do it in a heartbeat faster. Be like, yeah, come on, let's get on with this because it's been a great ride.
Speaker 1:Well, here's to 16 more, and hopefully 16 more of that.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Thank you. It's been great. Tell me something that really just jumps out at you. Oh my gosh, Come on.
Speaker 1:All right, I got one for you.
Speaker 2:Give it to me.
Speaker 1:When I was losing my hair.
Speaker 2:Oh my.
Speaker 1:And I finally decided to go shave it. I think I was working night shift at the time.
Speaker 2:You were, yes, you were.
Speaker 1:And I came home and I took down my hair out of my ponytail and I decided to go to the bathroom and look at it in all areas to see how big the bald spots were.
Speaker 1:This is one of the few nights that I actually was asleep when you got home, and so I'm sitting there looking at it and I, just at that time, I knew that I had my bald spots, I knew it, I knew they were there. But I decided, you know, and I had been thinking about shaving it and all this stuff, and that night, when I decided to look real close at everything, I kind of snapped and I was like that's it.
Speaker 2:That's it. And I could hear you in the bathroom saying I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 1:I can't take this anymore. I don't remember saying that. Oh, I do so I came in and I woke you up.
Speaker 2:Because I was actually a little bit awake hearing you do this and I was like, okay, well, I guess it's time and I said that's it.
Speaker 1:You're gonna go get clippers and you're gonna shave this off for me. And you said, uh, no.
Speaker 2:No, we're gonna, we'll take care of it.
Speaker 1:We'll go to the barbershop. You were going to take me to the barbershop and let a professional do it Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And little did she know that when I got home from work that Saturday afternoon I said, all right, let's go, yep. And you were kind of you were, you know, you were kind of sort of I'm not so sure about this. I was like, uh on, let's go, we're going. And we went and fortunately the the a1, the guy who owned the place, who was the barber, got her in the chair it was weird.
Speaker 1:Nobody was in there. It was weird when we got there.
Speaker 2:It was like you called ahead and cleared everything out there were a few people in there when we got let, when we left yeah but you know, she jumped up in that chair and explained what was going on, and I jumped in the chair next to her and she said how do you want mine? I said cut mine off too.
Speaker 1:Next thing, you know, we were both bald here's the thing that surprised me, though the guy, the barber yeah he. I climbed up in the chair and he's like he just and I guess it's a guy thing, I don't know if it's him personally or if it's just a guy thing I told him what was going on. I'm on it, shaved off. He's like okay, and did it without saying. Are you sure you know another woman would be like oh well, I don't know. Are you sure? Are you sure you know?
Speaker 2:another woman would be like. Oh well, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Are you sure? Are you sure you are? Are you positive? I don't know. And he's like, okay, and he started shaving it Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Of course. He has no hair either. The barber didn't have any hair either, but he didn't make a big deal about it is what I'm saying he did not hesitate.
Speaker 1:He did not hesitate, he did not make a big deal about it, he didn't take pause. That would make me nervous. He just was very confident and said all right, and did it.
Speaker 2:He didn't want to lose that $1,250. No, just kidding. But yeah, he's a good guy. He's been a barber as long as well. Of course he's been a barber his life. I've known him because I've only known him as a barber. But you know that goes back 30 years, 25 years of, you know, venturing into the places where he worked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but then, like you said, you climbed up in the chair next to me and did it too. I was like, oh, and I took a hat with me, just in case. You know. I wanted to wear it out. But you know what? I did not wear it out Cause once he swung that chair around and show cause he wouldn't let me look until it was all done. He swung that chair around and I could see myself in the mirror and my gut first reaction was oh, it's not that bad. Yeah, I look good.
Speaker 2:We went to dinner right after that and she was sporting that bald head and I think there was one person that said something.
Speaker 1:I don't remember that.
Speaker 2:It was a gentleman, and he was bald too. I do not remember that, and he said you look good, or he said something that was positive and I knew from that point on there was no worry about that.
Speaker 1:Well, what stood out to me about that going to the restaurant right afterwards is that nobody gawked at me. Nobody was like oh my God, oh my God. Nobody had that reaction like, oh, they just went on about their business. Oh, and then I thought, all right, this is going to be all right.
Speaker 2:And of course you know people are not going to react negatively right to you. But it's been amazing how many positive reactions to people from people that we've gotten about how beautiful you are.
Speaker 1:We would go to Tunica and all the women there would just walk up to me and say, oh, you're beautiful. And then some of them would go on to tell me about their stories about breast cancer or whatever cancer.
Speaker 2:Right, so anyway, yeah, that was definitely a fun, a moment of memory.
Speaker 1:Yes, definitely, absolutely a moment, and, of course, all of our vacations and trips were nice oh, absolutely going to vegas and maine and all that, yeah, I wish I could think of you know.
Speaker 2:There's so many you know over 16 years. There's so many things that come to light and come to memory. It's hard to just I'm sorry I put you on the spot for one, but it's hard to just. I'm sorry, I put you on the spot for one, but it's hard to come up with just one.
Speaker 1:How about when we all those tornadoes and we went to Birmingham for?
Speaker 2:the week. Oh Lord, yeah.
Speaker 1:We had the power outages. I think mainly it's with the kids, though you were stepping in and raising the kids.
Speaker 2:Well, it was my pleasure Absolutely. And the kids, well, it was my pleasure Absolutely. And I have to say, you know one of the I would probably never have gotten pets, but we've had one that we've still got. And you know, I tolerate her, I kind of sort of like her. She's a cat and I'm not a cat person but we did have a little puppy for a long time. He was our treasure, he was a good one and he went to Birmingham with us. No-transcript was, of course. We had our daughter with us and we had two queen beds and I can remember laying down on the floor with my phone and they were jumping, making him jump back and forth across the bed. That was so funny, just going to a hotel. You know little things like that.
Speaker 2:That make it so you know, make 16 years so special yeah it's like I said, it's hard to uh, hard to remember all of the. You know, that's one of those ones where you have to kind of sit down by yourself, especially at my age, and let your brain functions go back to memory mode and remember all the fun and the good times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and of course, I feel totally grateful for getting to know your family being enfolded into your family, meeting your mom and your brother and his wife and their child, and that was all the dinners that we've had together and holidays.
Speaker 2:Ditto, there you have an interesting family dear. I love them to death.
Speaker 1:Your family is lovely, they're funny.
Speaker 2:They're funny, I like them a lot. I like visiting, I like going up to that small town in Ohio and just going up there and spending a couple of days and seeing the different world that that is the world that you came from. So you know, that's a cool thing. I don't know, I don't know. I just got to say that more and more, each day goes by, I love you more.
Speaker 1:Well, I love you too. Dear Happy anniversary.
Speaker 2:You sounded so thrilled about that. No, I am.
Speaker 1:Very thrilled. 16 years seems like 16 minutes.
Speaker 2:It does, it does. What are we doing this weekend?
Speaker 1:Well, I thought we were to discuss this. We're going to go out to dinner tonight watch a movie. We're going to watch a Terry Garr. We're going to watch a movie I've never heard of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's going to be interesting you know, when Terry Garr died, I said let's watch a Terry Garr movie this weekend, and so we're going to watch the Conversation. Although the trailer that we watched, I didn't see her in it at all, so I don't know if she has a big part in it. I would also like to watch Tootsie sometime, but we're going to watch a movie called the Conversation. It has a lot of big stars in it. And then Saturday, of course, it's the Georgia-Florida game, and we're going to have Cameron here that day and then Sunday we have our family dinner.
Speaker 2:That's right. See, that's why I married you, because we already talked about that and you had to tell me again what are we doing. What are we doing? And of course, we're probably going to go to dinner tonight, like you said, but we're also going to maybe do something next weekend.
Speaker 1:I got something planned that you don't know about. Oh, I got you All right. Well, we need to end this and we're going to do it with the question of the day. All right, the question of the day. I'm going to let the gent ask it. He always asks questions the best.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that. Since it is our anniversary, we are curious to know what is your most memorable moment of your marriage.
Speaker 1:There you go, that's it.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:Very simple.
Speaker 1:Yep, I have to go. I got to get ready for work.
Speaker 2:All right, go dogs, have a great weekend. Happy anniversary. We'll be back tomorrow. Absolutely All right Go, dogs have a great weekend. Happy anniversary.
Speaker 1:We'll be back tomorrow, absolutely. All right, bye, bye.
