Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

Flashback, August 1987, Duluth Middle School. Boy meets Girl, Boy falls for Girl, the drama unfolds as only teenage love can. Ten years later, August 1997, Boy & Girl marry. Today, nine years and two children later, we're celebrating our wedding anniversary. I love to scare 8th grade girls - telling them that I met my husband in the very same grade - they are always appalled! But it's true, Mitch and I met in 8th grade and we've been together - for the most part - ever since. Some small bumps in the road, some large - but almost twenty years later, here we are - living to tell our fairy tale story.
Tonight we will go out and recap the last year and plan for the next - the big 10 year mark! Knowing your spouse for over twenty years is a great gift - I knew Mitch before he hit puberty - before his voiced changed, when he and I were the same height! We have decades of blackmail material on each other that we'd never use. He's seen all the bad hair, clothes, etc that a teenage girl goes through. I had the pleasure of watching him become a man - a man of God.
Fiddler on the Roof had Yente - Mitch and I had a more powerful matchmaker and we thank Him everyday for the match that he made in us.