In the Beginning

This Shabbos my husband and I are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. Seriously! We were married during parshat Beresheit (the book of Genesis, chapter 1). We were sort of like the big bang, big explosion.  Our wedding was 18 days after Mordechai's birthday and 18 days before my birthday and on the 18th of October. If you are new to numerology, 18 represents "chai" (life)! To this day, he likes numbers so much that he assigns or looks for "significant" numbers in everything...odometers, house numbers, combination locks, etc.  For example he stopped me the other day from setting the microwave to 30 seconds. I was asked to set it to 36 seconds. Sure, dear, whatever you want. Anyway, whether you're into numerology or not, I'd say 25 years is significant. Whew! That is a long time in my book and yet I wonder where the time has gone. 4 kids, 3 dogs, 4 birds, a turtle and too many fish to count later, here we are.

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So, here is a photo of my husband when we got married. His got that Don Johnson look going on!

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And here is a photo of him now. He's got that Don Johnson turned chassidic rebbe thing going on.

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There is quite a story behind all of this, but lets just say a million dollar bet sealed our fate to be married and a dream took us on this wild religious ride...and the rest of that story, you will need to read as soon as I find an editor for my book.  Well, here's to great beginnings, our journey, deep appreciation and to many more meaningful years....I did promise him I wouldn't get another dachshund in the next 25....instead, I told him I'm getting two!! Looks like someone's going to get kicked out of the bed!