The Anniversary Window
A Love Story
My wife and I first saw the window in an antique shop. A wrinkled old lady told us it was from a Scottish castle. We fell in love with it, but could not afford it at the time. We left the store.Later, my wife told me she really wanted that window. I told her "Darling, we don't even have a house yet to put it in."
"I don't care," she replied, "I want that window!" It was about a month until St. Valentine's day. I left work early the next day, and bought the window. I told the wrinkled lady it was for my wife's anniversary present. I took it to my shop, reglazed it, and went home.
When I walked in the door my wife was very upset. "Somebody bought our window!" She cried. "I told you we should have bought it right then and there!"
"Honey," I said, "We don't have a house yet for that window."
My wife was beside herself. "Now we don't even have the window either! Some old man bought it for his anniversary!" I comforted her and the matter dropped as the night wore on.
The next day, when I got home from work, I got great news. "Darling," my wife said, "I found another window. I don't like it as much......"
"Honey, we don't have a house for a stained glass window."
"But I have to have this window."
"We don't have the money for a stained glass window that we don't have a house for."
"I'm going to get this window. I'm going right now to get this window. I missed out on the first one, and nobody is going to get this one but me!"
Needless to say, St. Valentine's day was celebrated that evening at our home.
"Now," my wife said, "We have to get a house to fit the window."
Strangely enough, when we found our house, There was an attic vent in the front gable. I told my wife "The window is going there."
"It will never fit."
"Watch."
When I removed the attic vent a few weeks later, the window fit with a finger's width on either side. I put it in, framed it, and lit it from behind on the same switch as the porch light. The gingerbread in the gable, I made myself.
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