Entries from November 2008 ↓

Dear Husband,
There is so much about you that I respect. There are so many things about you that I love.
I love your intelligence and your passion, and the two of them combined are even better. Your passion makes me want to become passionate. Even if we are talking amp tubes or World Wars.
I love how you tip your head to the side and sing with you whole heart.
I love how you love me, and you would literally give me the world on a silver platter if you thought that I wanted it.
I love your patience with me.
I love how you would give your last dollar to someone if you thought that it would help them. I love how you give with no questions, so expectations of what you’ll get in return.
I could go on and on forever, but I don’t have the time (and besides, I hear the children dumping large amounts of toys out of their toy box, so if I don’t go soon, I’m going to be picking up John Deere tractors until the cows come home).
I just wanted to say that I think you are at your absolute best when I watch you love our children.
The way you sit and explain the solar system to Forest in a way that he can understand, but still challenge him to learn more.
The way you play your guitar and sing with them, encouraging them to touch your prized possessions, while teaching them the passion of music.
I love to hear you singing them to sleep at night. And answering those 4852 last questions they ask you before they go to sleep. Especially Warrior’s bird question every night; you always let him ask it, and you always answer him with such patience.
I love how you love to dress the baby. And how you genuinely enjoy picking out her outfits and seeing her look adorable. I love how you rock her to sleep.
And if anyone ever wondered what kind of man you were, all they would have to do is look into your children’s‘ eyes. And they would immediately see the love and the adoration they feel for you, and they would know that you are indeed a fine, and wonderful man.
And I get to see it everyday. I’d say I’m pretty darn lucky.

Sincerely,
Your Wife

You picked out her sweater and you had it hanging on the door.

You bathed her gently, and you called me in 7 times to show me how excited she was in the water.

She looked adoringly up at you. (But how’s that different from any other time?)

I think you’ve got yourself a princess for life there, Daddy.

  I hate that we carry any balance on our credit card whatsoever. Unfortunately, we do. We’ve been trying to pay it down though. Every once in a while, we sit down, review our offers, see if we can make any credit card balance transfer to get a better rate, and regroup. We need to do that again soon. I don’t feel guilty taking credit card companies up on their promotional offers, especially with the interest rates you often get without them. The ecomonic crisis makes me want to pay down those balances even faster now.

Those girls over there always seem to be giving stuff away! And I’ve actually won before, so I know it’s legit! Check out their newest contest — the Christmas giveaway!

   Today we celebrated Thanksgiving with my parents and siblings a bit early. My mom made her amazing homemade stuffing, which was so incredible. And I had a very hearty portion of mashed potatoes. If you haven’t noticed, I have a love affair with carbs. (Good thing I’m active, or orovo diet pills, here we come!)

   But the whole point of this post was more to complain… about SNOW! I just hate it! Since when have we had this much snow in freaking November! We slid all the way down my parents hill tonight (it’s a mile of steep, steep, straight up and down hill). We slid past their driveway on the way there, and then we couldn’t make it up the hill on the way back. I am just not ready for this, and I want to send it back where it came from! WAH!!!!

   Here is Forest, watching the snow:

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