Family Dynamics

Reasons Why My Husband is Better than Almost Anything*‏

I realized today that I may characterize my husband a bit like a stick in the mud, which is not very fair of me because he really isn’t (mostly). If anything, he’s usually the fun one up for a night out on the town when I’d rather re-read Rebecca at home for the forty-seventh time.

So I am going to write a post in honor of him, partly to keep things happy on the home front, but mostly because he is AMAZING and deserves good things to be said of him. Not to sound all braggy, but since I did have to wait nine years to marry him, yeah, I’m going to brag a little.

Reasons why my husband is very cool:

  • He wants to learn to make sausage, pancetta, prosciutto, spiedini, wine,** and cannoli from scratch. Yum. Those are my love language. For those who doubt his follow-through, he has already learned to make his Nonna’s spaghetti and meatballs from scratch. Take that, Giada!*****
  • He has built a go-cart, a boat, several tables and an ill-fated porch swing, basically from nothing. Next I’m going to have him make the entire Pottery Barn Benchwright Collection.
  • He makes me laugh SO HARD and SO OFTEN, mostly through storytelling/singing about our pets. Sometimes with puppeteering. The man is a comic genius.
  • Tagging onto the above, he lets me be my wacky self – even encourages it, bless his heart.
  • He does manly things like spearfishing and surfing and hockey, yet he also looks hot holding babies. Perhaps most importantly, he takes issue with anyone who uses the phrase “man card” or threatens to revoke said item. *Swoon.*
  • He is building a deck for our house.
I can’t wait to drink Arnold Palmers on this bad boy.
  • He can MacGuyver ANYTHING. Homeboy is clever.
  • He is also very smart, even though he is modest enough to protest otherwise. Ten years in and we still manage to have lively philosophical debates. My definition of love; the ability to have discussions with no end and no purpose, but an abundance of meaning.
  • For the coup de grâce, this is how he proposed:

See? He deserves some loving from the blogosphere. We’re truly a team on this blog – he lets me write about things he could veto if he wanted to, but he’s a good sport. Also, where do you think I’m getting all my tech support from?

Poor guy. He had no idea what he was getting into.
*No he did not pay me to write that. He also did not hijack my computer.
**Non-alcoholic*** for me, of course. He’s not insensitive enough to make my D.O.C.**** in my own kitchen.
***Yes, I am aware that’s grape juice.
****For those who aren’t alcoholics/don’t watch Intervention, D.O.C. is Drug of Choice. Try to keep up.
*****I’m just kidding, Giada, you know I love you. Call-me-let’s-hang-out-I-think-we’d-be-such-good-friends!!!
******Did anyone else notice that this post was extra starry today?

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