It was twenty years ago come Thursday

 Here we are when Footless Man had both feet and his eyesight.  Here I am, before school, training, and all the challenges of everything in between.
and look at us.  We are so radiant, so happy.  It took so much to get even there. If you look at the things against us it looked like it would never work.  All the obstacles all the hoops.  It seemed like it took forever to happen and it looked so impossible for so long.  And there we were.  
I think about all the challenges we faced, what we accomplished both together and alone.  For one thing we both expected that I would be widowed within five years.  Given that, the other losses seemed, well not minor, but more cope able.  Some how a prosthesis is a better choice than a coffin. 
Kids are raised,  School is mostly done,  We passed the expected five year limit four times. We have moved into middle and old age.
What an amazing journey.
There are very few photos of that day.  I went and dug around to find them.  I came up with this.

bouquet

hair wreath

And this proves beyond a doubt that mom is a sentimental pack rat.
So here we are twenty years later.  It has been one wild ride.  Next stop, 25.  Five years out.  Always five years out.  I can think about five years, it's manageable.
I will put up more photos later because they promptly went into the fifth dimension shortly after they showed up.