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How do I love you? or, Happy 9th Anniversary, Tom!

06.13.07 | Dick, marriage | 11 Comments

I love that you say you want a few more children even though it often seems that we have a few too many already.

I love your patience.

I love that you will usually take out the trash after I ask a mere seven times.

I love that you love our daughters.

I love that you have the “intense listener with questions” mode mastered, even though you might not remember a vital detail the next day.

I love that you only yell at me after I have yelled at you for about a year; actually, you probably haven’t even yelled at me nine times in all.

I love that you compliment me on my new slimmer self and that you never complained or criticized my more zaftig silhouette.

I love that you didn’t hover over me with each pregnancy screaming “don’t eat that” and “don’t do that,” even thought this might have been because you didn’t know what I wasn’t supposed to eat and do.

I love that you are a strong and a mighty man and firm in the faith of Christ.

I love that you are eight inches taller and eighty pounds more muscly than me; it makes me feel feminine.

I love that you risked severe embarrassment and fainting to be with me at each birth.

I love that you want to have companion prayer with me every night.

I love that you are guileless and that I trust you completely, just not to get my shoulder back in the quickest, best way.

I love that you are kind to a tantrum child and gentle with a sick one.

I love that you’ll change the crib sheets in the middle of the night without waking me, even if it means I find them inexplicably in a wad later on the next day.

I love that you encourage me to write, and nagged me into starting this blog, and supported me in making it my own.

I love that you listened to me nine years and four months ago and agreed that getting married sounded like a good thing, and that even though you got cold feet, you came to your senses pretty darn quick!

totally unrelated, but fun to read

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