Long ago when I started this Blog, I am sure I must have made some mention about how wonderful my husband is and how different we are and how much bull we take from each other.
I am sure I wrote something about that…..but I am not going to go and search for it because I don’t have time. I am the mom of four and wife of one. So lets just start fresh.
The dynamics in our house are very interesting.
I think we may cover the full spectrum. My husband is a Nuclear Chemist with a MBA who has come out of the Lab to work in Management. He went to college on a full athletic scholarship and was not only a decathlete but played football as a receiver…(very gifted)
By the way he stands 6’1″–220lb to my 5’3″ 110lb (mutt and jeff)
I, on the other hand,am a Couturier. I have spent the last 20+ years designing and making wedding dresses and formals for women. My clients came all the way from Hawaii to Germany and California to New York. It was rewarding and fun. I was an A student in school. I did very well for someone who only cared about the Art and History classes. I was top notch during my apprenticeship because that is where I wanted to be. I work with Antique and Vintage Textiles now because they are my real passion. I grew up under the tutelage of my mother, Alice. She her self was a RN and very well educated. She grew up on a farm and had a very unique perspective on life.
She taught me how to sew, cook, knit, crochet, embroidery, quilt, garden, we did 4-H, she taught me how to compost, how to re-cycle, the list goes on.
She gave me my love for travel and adventure and I think she might have passed her sass onto me also.
My husband seems to think so.
So….see my kids really got some mix didn’t they?
Oh by the way…I hate football and my Father in Law coached for 42 years.
So here is the CREAM!
I utterly adore my husband and he adores me.
My friends and his are always so shocked when they find out the kinda of stuff he does.
He is the fella who gets up in the middle of the night and changes the baby and then brings the little bundle to me to nurse so I wouldn’t have to get out of bed. He is the guy who will sleep on the floor next to our sick kids bed because he doesn’t want me to clean vomit up. He is the guy that hasn’t let me clean a bathroom since we met (he does it with special stuff –remember he is a science guy) because he doesn’t want me and now the kids anywhere near it. He does laundry and dishes and helps clean. He is Super Man.
He is the guy who will send me and a friend to town to eat and shop while watches the kids. He has even cooked for me and a friend who needed to come over for girl chat. He cooked and did the kids while we visited and then he came and joined us . It was nice. He indulges my flower and bulb addiction. He buys me lots and lots of very pretty things to wear.
So where is the Bull I mentioned and what am I doing for him right? Well he really should be the one answering the second part of the question. Our marriage is a partnership. We take care of each other. The house stuff we do together (except for the bathrooms). We are both great at different things. It has taken a while to figure that out. I am the one who faces things head on and digs deeper. He likes to avoid things as long as possible and hopefully it will just work itself out (except dirty bathrooms)
I read people better and over the years he has come to trust that. I have not been wrong yet.
My husband is diabetic. One of my close friends is his Dr. and she an I work together to keep his stubborn bum on track (he is a bad patient). Chris (husband) in case you have not figured it out yet is very very HIGH energy. He is like the Energizer Bunny on crack. I am his calming pill that he doesn’t always want to take even though he knows he needs too. He was so upset when we got the news that he too was diabetic (family trait on his side). He is scare of needles–he passes out. So testing everyday and insulin was going to be a big deal. And it was. So we made a plan. We restructured diet, exercise, etc. and within two months he had weaned off insulin and he in now just taking pills to control his levels and it is working.
A lot of prayer when into to this too. Everyday.
Not his car he just wants it. I don’t think so!
Ok, this is Chris and Suzanne —-Chris was just a tad too heavy right before he found out he was diabetic.
Chris, My solid rough and rugged Irish man! I love him so!
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