Last month Elaina and celebrated out 15th wedding anniversary by take a trip, without kids, to the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Elaina has been to Hawaii before, but this was my first trip, and as a public service to our readers here are some dos and don’ts* from our trip.

One of the toughest parts of marriage is sorting out the division of labor. As a newly married couple this is often simple, but that doesn’t mean that it is always easy for new couples. Figure out who does how much of what can be a challenge. Who pays the bills? Who keeps the schedule? Who does the laundry? As life continues and things inevitably get busier and more complex which makes the task of determining the division of labor all that more challenging.

Marriage is lots of things. Some of them beautiful and wonderful, some of them difficult and hard.

Marriage is all the best things of life mixed with a lot of prayer, forgiveness, grace, mercy, understanding, wisdom, and hard work.

Marriage is also

March Madness always brings with it talk of busted brackets, the inevitable singing of One Shining Moment (an event bordering on the sacred), and a trip down memory lane to the time that a beautiful girl broke up with me, and beat me in March Madness.