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Happy 50th Anniversary, Mom and Dad


Fifty years ago today, my mother and father, ages 19 and 23, respectively, married. Fifty years is a long time and I laugh when I mention to others that even if I was married twice as long as I have been, I still wouldn’t even be in my fourth decade of marital bliss.

This About.com piece indicates that gold is the word for everything related to the 50th celebration. We’re not giving my parents actual gold, but I’ve told them that I am 100% certain that they will never guess what we’re giving them. And I’m very excited to have been the one to come up with the idea.

Happy 50th Anniversary, Mom and Dad. It is truly a once in a lifetime event.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:57 pm June 8th, 2008 in Parenting, Youth 

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13 Responses to “Happy 50th Anniversary, Mom and Dad”

  1. 1 Paul on June 9th, 2008 12:24 am

    Congratulations to your Mom and Dad and may they have many more years together.

    My parents made it to 66 years, 1 month and 22 days which even now astonishes me (they were 20 and 17).

    I would have to live to age 102 to make it myself, which doesn’t seem terribly likely to me.

  2. 2 BRM on June 9th, 2008 1:12 am

    I bet that the biggest benefits your parents have gotten from their 50 years together lie within their children and grandchildren and the good lives and good souls they will carry on with. Congratulations to you too!

  3. 3 Oengus on June 9th, 2008 5:02 am

    Mine will be having their 50th next year, they were also 23 and 19, my mother older than my father.

    Yours make a very handsome couple, and stylish dressers too. You going to do tribute to them? Tell the story of them?

    I agree half a century is quite a significant event.

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on June 9th, 2008 8:48 am

    Paul – 66?! that’s incredible. God blessed them and you. Thanks for the comment.

  5. 5 Jill Miller Zimon on June 9th, 2008 8:49 am

    BRM I’m quite sure you are correct. ;) Thank you for commenting.

  6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on June 9th, 2008 8:51 am

    Their story is probably best left to them to tell – my version certainly would only represent it from my perspective as a daughter – and you can bet that won’t be quite the same as they see it. :)

    Thanks for the comment on the milestone.

  7. 7 Muffet on June 9th, 2008 1:53 pm

    Mazel tov! That’s wonderful. You look like your mother! (That’s a compliment to both of you.)

  8. 8 Jill Miller Zimon on June 9th, 2008 2:35 pm

    Thanks, Muffet! Hope you’re doing well and Yom Tov for Shavuot.

  9. 9 Carole Cohen on June 10th, 2008 2:18 am

    I love how your family celebrates and supports each other…congratulations to your parents and I absolutely adore that photo. I see a resemblance to someone in your mother’s smile :-)

  10. 10 John Ettorre on June 10th, 2008 1:21 pm

    A darling picture. I did a double take, because the photo looks so contemporary, right down to their outfits. But then, I suppose classic Connecticut style never goes out of fashion. Anyway, congratulations to them.

  11. 11 Jill Miller Zimon on June 10th, 2008 1:33 pm

    Hi Carole – thanks for the very kind words. My mother is probably laughing out loud reading them. :) Yeah – we do okay in the support department but let’s just say that at Yom Kippur, there’s plenty I can atone for.

  12. 12 Jill Miller Zimon on June 10th, 2008 1:34 pm

    Thanks, John. Actually, my parents didn’t have anything to do with CT until just after I was born. They were raised in Teaneck (mom) and Queens (my dad) and lived in Tenafly from about 1958-1962. I was actually born in NYC.

  13. 13 John Ettorre on June 10th, 2008 1:39 pm

    Gotcha. But of course the comment about classic style (whether it be Jersey, the outer buroughs or CT) remaining in style still applies.

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