with my jonny {self-portrait challenge}
We have a secret phrase we say to each other so we always know one of us isn't a clone (hee, hee...yes, we watch too many sci-fi movies). It is the response to the phrase that is the key. Whenever this phrase comes up it is when we are looking eye-to-eye like we are here.
We have a secret handshake. Every few months we add another step. By the time we have been married twenty years, it will probably take us ten minutes to complete all the steps.
We have silly names for each other. I call him Stinkbug. He calls be Lady Belle. (No, he doesn't stink. It just started because I love that word stink. Isn't it fun to say? Seriously. Say it out loud. Love it.)
We annoy each other. I have been known to start singing songs about how annoyed I am...only to, of course, become the annoying.
We crack each other up. We think we are the funniest people we know.
We never forget one another. Even though life creeps in and invites stress, we are learning to remember that we have one another for support. We are realizing always we have to do is lean back a bit and the other person is right there.
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Reader Comments (24)
Oh, Liz, what a happy picture and post. I can feel the fun and playfulness you two share together. How special. Thanks for giving us a little window to your loving world.
*sigh*
now THAT'S love.
:)
Cute picture! We have a secret word also - glad to know we're not the only geeks, er - I mean, clever romantics out there!
Very special and precious.
precious, precious, yummy picture.
Stinkbug is adorable...and so are you Lady Belle.
snuggles,
boho
i love the story of you two and i love this photo. so sweet.
this is beautiful, love.... rather than feel sad that i no longer have this, i feel inspired to remember that it is possible... you guys are the cutest :-) x
ps. the day we meet i will remember to call you Lady Belle ;-)
You are too cute Lady Belle and I'm thinking you're lady Belle because of Belle in Beauty and the Beast?? If so, she's also A's favorite princess.
I love your secret handshake.....we've been thumb wrestling for years, usually in the most inappropriate places (symphony, in the movies where it's pitch black, etc.) and it cracks us up. If together you've got laughter, you can conquer most anything.
xo
this was a beautiful moment in my morning...thank you for sharing!
Awwww...I loved your photo and the story, such obvious, pure joy!
so sweet!
Cool photo! And I so love that you two have your very own mysterious code words and secret handshake. LOVE it!!
what an amazing relationship!
That's a "best friend" fun love! Very sweet!
You can see the love in your smiles! I have to say what everyone else is saying "so sweet"
:)
Teresa
Hi Liz.....I'm just checking in to say hello...and see what you have been doing????? I see you are your beautiful self......BIG SMILE!
We crack each other up. We think we are the funniest people we know.
Um, hello? I thought I was the funniest people you knew.
Just kidding. (Kinda.)
This is a great post, and I want to see that secret handshake. Oh wait, then it wouldn't be a secret, would it.
(C'mon. I won't tell anyone. Show me, show me.)
The picture alone is priceless Liz,
simply adorable :)
love & stuff,
xxxd
this is so cute! photo is so cute!
You ARE the funniest people you know! This post is wonderful! Loved the picture, too.
THIS i totally LOVE...
the little oddities that make us
who we are and that draw us
to one another...
:)
You two are so lucky to have one another!
Thank you for this entry. More hope that my turn is possible.
= )
-Nina
nina866.blogspot.com
I'm so glad to know you two and wish you lived closer! Wouldn't it be great fun if one day you psyched him out and didn't answer with the correct response but instead pretended like you had no idea what he was talking about!!
Is there anything better than finding THAT ONE? That one who is all those things you listed and so much more? I think not. :) Glad you found yours.