Those were the best days of our lives?

Cody and I went to a trivia night on Saturday night with some friends. I don´t know if this was a phenomenon that I missed when I lived in Florida, or if they just don´t do this sort of thing there (probably because there is much more to do in FLA then here - like be outside 12 months of the year). In any event, itś actually a pretty cool set-up - they are usually set up by charities or groups trying to make money so you get a group of friends together (about 8) and all bring whatever food and drink you want (we brought chocolate covered strawberries and beer), pay an entrance fee and play 10 rounds of trivia against all the other tables. There were probably 20 tables there so thereś a good crowd of people. Then they read out the questions and your group writes the answers down and you turn in the answers at the end of each round. So itś a fun little thing to do with friends, usually for a good cause. So, anyway, we had this trivia night on Saturday and on the way home we started talking about math competitions - not sure how we went from trivia to math competitions but we´d had a few beers. Anyway, as most people who know me know, I was a total math geek - but I really wouldn´t call myself a geek because I thought I was a damn cool math club girl - at least in my little teenage head. So we started talking about math clubs which got us talking about middle school (when Cody was on our schoolś math club and I was not - see, he was a geek first). So when we got home we pulled out our old yearbooks - all six of them (we started going to the same school in the 7th grade even though we didn´t meet until the 8th grade). It was really funny to look through them all together after all these years. I think one of the things I love most about Cody (amount a zillion other things) is our history together - itś just fun to look through those things and laugh at the same thing. Anyway, we were talking about high school and how so many people see those years as the best years of their lives. While we didn´t fiercely hate high school (at least not every single day), we didn´t love it either and certainly wouldn´t consider those the ¨best days of our lives.¨ So we got to talking about what time period we would describe as the ¨best days of our lives¨ - our childhoods running around before jobs and responsibility? high school when you learned to drive? turning 18 so you can finally go out to clubs? turning 21 and not worrying about cops all the time? going to college and doing all those fun college things? grad school? So after going through all those things and laughing about stories to go with each of those (we met before we were 18 so we got to go through all those together) we really decided that right now is the best time of our lives. Honestly, not just trying to be trite. We can legally drive and drink (not at the same time), rent cars, get cheap car insurance (we´re over 25 AND married - and neither of us have a red car), we own a house and our own cars (finally paid them off!), we finally have enough money to not check the bank account every time we go grocery shopping and to travel on occasion, we have close family but also have our independence, we´re old enough to know enough about retirement and finally be able to speak intelligently about the options, we not only have good friends but throughly understand the value of good friendships - both his, mine and ours, we are slowly but surely paying off our debts without adding more to the list, we´ve had the opportunity to both grow individually and as a couple living in STL ¨by ourselves¨ and having to figure out a lot of things on our own, wére close with our families but not dependent on them or excessively intertwined, the wedding hell is behind us, we know that we really understand each other well, but also know that we grow a little more each day so there is always something more to learn. Basically, weŕe at a good spot and feel that this really is as good as it ever has been and hoping it just keeps getting better. Oh, and we know all about insurance (which when youŕe younger couldn't care less about) and we actually have earthquake insurance - in case you haven´t heard we had an ¨earthquake¨ a few weeks ago. People swear they felt it here - we didn´t feel a thing.