Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Milestones
Wow it has been a while since my last post. So much has gone on. We had a few family Birthdays in September, the anniversary of a friends passing, Thanksgiving & my Parents 50th wedding anniversary.
Wedding Anniversaries can become part of our Legacy and Heritage. What do I mean by that well...? My grandparents were married October 6th 1928 so that would be if they were still alive 77 yrs, my parents celebrated October 15th 50 years of marriage and this July coming my oldest brother will be celebrating his 25th, my younger sister is coming up to around 15 yrs, and my youngest brother is coming up to around 12 or 13 yrs. So you see in our family when we take wedding vows it was forever. Not like today where you are married today and divorced tomorrow.
Marriage was not made for divorce in the old days it was made for two people to live and care for each other through sickness and through health, through good and bad times, and through all the trials and tribulations. You rode out what ever storms hit and you worked them out together. You got old together. Thus far there has not been any divorce in our side of the family, in fact if you add up all the marriages there has been 180 years of marriages. What a great thing.
That is almost 200 years of family memories, stories and of parents, children, grand children, and great grandchildren. We are now into the fifth generation of Bennett’s. What a clan we are. Today there are 18 members of this immediate family. Our family will carry on for at least one more generation as there are 7 boys to carry on the name. It awes mw to think of that. I just spent the last month putting together a photo album of the last 50 years of this family.
This album is a family history book to be carried down from generation to generation. It is a book to continue with the next marriages to come forth and their children. It is my hope that this book is the beginning of the tracking of this Great Family.
So I look at this marriage as a milestone in the days and lives of the James H Bennett Clan of Cambridge. This book tracks the last fifty years and it is my hope to track back the previous fifty as well, so that this generation can know where it all started from.
So here is a toast for the celebration of 50 years together and a milestone in our lives. Love you Mom & Dad.
Wedding Anniversaries can become part of our Legacy and Heritage. What do I mean by that well...? My grandparents were married October 6th 1928 so that would be if they were still alive 77 yrs, my parents celebrated October 15th 50 years of marriage and this July coming my oldest brother will be celebrating his 25th, my younger sister is coming up to around 15 yrs, and my youngest brother is coming up to around 12 or 13 yrs. So you see in our family when we take wedding vows it was forever. Not like today where you are married today and divorced tomorrow.
Marriage was not made for divorce in the old days it was made for two people to live and care for each other through sickness and through health, through good and bad times, and through all the trials and tribulations. You rode out what ever storms hit and you worked them out together. You got old together. Thus far there has not been any divorce in our side of the family, in fact if you add up all the marriages there has been 180 years of marriages. What a great thing.
That is almost 200 years of family memories, stories and of parents, children, grand children, and great grandchildren. We are now into the fifth generation of Bennett’s. What a clan we are. Today there are 18 members of this immediate family. Our family will carry on for at least one more generation as there are 7 boys to carry on the name. It awes mw to think of that. I just spent the last month putting together a photo album of the last 50 years of this family.
This album is a family history book to be carried down from generation to generation. It is a book to continue with the next marriages to come forth and their children. It is my hope that this book is the beginning of the tracking of this Great Family.
So I look at this marriage as a milestone in the days and lives of the James H Bennett Clan of Cambridge. This book tracks the last fifty years and it is my hope to track back the previous fifty as well, so that this generation can know where it all started from.
So here is a toast for the celebration of 50 years together and a milestone in our lives. Love you Mom & Dad.
# posted by Alexis @ 8:56 p.m. 
