Lots of Love

Valentine's Day is this week and I thought I'd jot down a few reasons why I love my family so much.

Hub is my everything.  We've been married now for almost 17 years and he still makes my heart skip a beat.  Still my best friend.  Still the one I can lean on and the one I want to be strong for when he needs to do some leaning.  We've done our best to build our relationship on the foundation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Things like love, charity, selflessness, honesty, working hard.  We're not perfect at it all the time, believe me, but we try very hard to keep the really important things as priorities.

I found this post on things to do as a couple and I like the suggestions.  Some of these things we do really well and some we could work on a little.  One thing we definitely do is talk.  A lot.  About almost everything from politics, to sports, and especially our kids.  Ok, sometimes it's ME ranting on about something completely unimportant until I hear him snoring in the background.  He indulges me.  I love our conversations, in fact it's one of the first things I noticed about him.  Maybe I'll write more on that soon.  We do our best to move forward, together.

Don't know how I was lucky enough to land him or how I'm lucky enough to keep him around, but I'm sure grateful.  I better move on.  He'd think I was absolutely cheesy for writing all that...

J - He's an early-teen-smart-stubborn-determined-big-hearted-sometimes-antagonistic-cute ball of fun all rolled into one.  He makes me want to pull my hair out sometimes for all of his intensity and yet I want to stop time for how fast he's growing up.

T - Ever been scared out of your wits for what your child may get themselves into?  That would be my boy in a one line explanation.  But oh, how I adore him.  He's sweet and thoughtful and really likes to be happy, which gives him optimism or naivety, whichever seems appropriate because he's both and that is very, very endearing.

Lu - She is a fireball, that one.  She is my sweetie.  She's a hard nut to crack, but once you're in, you're in for life.  Or until you make her mad and then she may never forgive you.  Ever.  She's all girl, stubborn, determined and she almost never lets her brothers win.

There are a lot of other people I love too.  My parents, for starters.  Even though we're a broken family with a few straggly limbs, I still can recognize the wisdom from some hard lessons of life, not only my lessons but seeing the impact of other peoples lessons.  My truest and bestest friends also fill holes in me that time and distance don't diminish.

I am so blessed.  :)