My Man

I am so grateful for Brad today. He supports me in my hobbies, helps me with hard questions, and cheers me on when I need him. I love being able to talk to him about anything and everything. His point of view is usually so different than mine and I need that different perspective.

He also got a million points tonight for coming to my rescue. Wednesday nights when I need to leave to go to mutual can be tricky with a baby. Normally Luke is so happy and perfect, but he wasn't tonight. He wouldn't eat any of his dinner and I couldn't calm his crying. Brad took him without complaint. I felt so awful leaving a messy house and a crying child all for Brad when he had just walked in from his own long day at work. And then I came home to a clean kitchen and a happily fed, sleeping Luke. I don't know how he did all of that in an hour and a half, but I couldn't be more grateful!

One of my favorite things about our relationship that we started very early on was to never keep score. For example we'd never say, "Well, you got to go skiing all day yesterday so now I get to go shopping all day today." We're a team. And we're excited for each other when we get to do fun things even if we aren't together. We have different opportunities sometimes and with little kids we can't always do everything together. We also have our different roles and they compliment and help each other. Once in a while he or I may need help with our 'roles' and we'll step up and do that without hanging it over each other's heads. It all evens out and neither one of us feel like we do more than the other. He does so much for our family and for me. I couldn't be more grateful!

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Right when I went to pick the kids up from school the snow started falling hard! Tenley’s hair was covered in white. It was beautiful.