After the aunt’s birthday party last week, I couldn’t get my mind off the upcoming 50th Wedding Anniversary my parents will be celebrating early next year. I brought it up with Spouse a few hours after we arrived from the party and he told me he had exactly the same thing on his mind during the day. He then encouraged me to get in touch with the sisters through our main line of communications - the internet.

I set up our family Yahoo! Group in March 2003 and communicating within the family ( sisters and nieces and nephews and brothers-in-law too!) in two different countries became easier. Our latest member is the Eldest Sister. After years of trying to convince her to go online for real, and not use her daughters’ Yahoo! Messenger accounts to chat with us, she finally set up her own email account about a month ago.

And so the messages are flowing in our group…back and forth with this or that detail. The anniversary is in January and we should have made plans sooner but the parents were not keen on a party for one reason or another. We’re not big party people….and definitely not the stiff, formal-wear required kinda party. So we’ll steer as far  away from that as we can manage.

But a Golden Wedding Anniversary! Ohhhh…how could you not celebrate such a milestone? As a family with 7 middle-aged children and 9 grandchildren of various ages, we definitely have reason to celebrate.

My parents made it this far and they are even finally getting along with each other!

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