Happy President's Day! Yes, I'm starting to get weird with all the posting on holidays and such, but considering it's one of the few days I'm actually off, you just got to work with me here. Anyway, I meant to finish this post up last week some time, but I got busy and my husband and I are moving into our house this weekend so I had quite a few other things on my plate. He's at work today and I'm off so I'm using this holiday to finish up this blog and relax. But as I said earlier, my husband and I will be moving this week so don't be surprised if you don't hear from me for a couple of weeks while we get settled and get the Internet "sitiated" and all that.
In the first blog, we left off at number seven, but I wanted to do fourteen to represent the fourteenth day of February so if you want to read the first seven things on my list, then you'll need to read the first post, but for those of you who waited a week and a half for my finished list, here it is:
8. I appreciate that you watch whatever movie I want to watch. You almost always do whatever I want to do, but with most things you still have a preference whether it's what game we're going to play or where we're going to eat. So because of this, it's always funny to me that you almost never mention anything about what movie we should see and you never complain about the movies I pick out, even the ones I know you secretly dread. I'm grateful that when it comes to love, you understand there are some things worth comprising on and other things that just require sitting through a two hour romance movie.
9. I appreciate that you have a great relationship with my little brother. It means the world to me for my brother and husband to be good friend. They are the two most important men in my life after all. It used to be a constant dread actually because I was always worried that my brother wouldn't like who I was dating so I would have to break up with him or my boyfriend wouldn't like my brother so I would have to break up with him. Do you get the picture? Either way, I wanted to be with someone that my brother got along with and someone that cared for my little brother as much as I did. Fortunately, I found the right mix with my husband who adores my brother and loves spending time with him because I guess when it comes to my brother and I, it's like we're almost the same person. And my brother doesn't mind doing things with Caleb and they text back and forth all the time like friends. I think my work here is finally done.
10. I appreciate that you don't mind helping out. As you can probably guess from my lack of interest in cooking and cleaning, I'm not very good at shopping or running errands either. I love being at home and being anti-social and even though I go to work, I typically go to work then come straight home, making as little stops as possible. Fortunately, I have a husband who doesn't mind going to the store and picking up things if I need him to or doesn't mind asking me if I want him to pick up dinner (and the answer is always yes), so thank you so much for being a wonderful man.
11. I appreciate that you like to listen to audibooks in the car with me. It does become hard because we don't like the same stories, but it's enough that you actually don't mind listening to monotonous reading on long road trips and that we both enjoy a good story no matter the case.
12. I appreciate that you brush my hair for me. I feel kind of bad for you now that I'm writing this because it sounds like I'm super lazy even to me and I am kind of lazy, but I love the fact that you don't mind taking care of me and that when I need my hair brushed, you're happy to do it and you make me feel so taken care of. Even if it's a simple task, it makes me feel closer to you.
13. I appreciate that you always support me. It's amazing that you are so open-minded and cooperative and that when I jump head first into terrible ideas, you still support me all the way by lowering the rope you have attached to me. Metaphorically speaking of course. You always tell me there's nothing we can't figure out and that if I really want to do something, you're going to find a way to make it work. When I said I wanted to take a trip to Ireland, you started saving money for the trip right away and when I wanted to go back to school, you told me to go for it even though I was terrified of telling you what I wanted to do. I know that living with me can't be easy, but you make my life so much easier and I'm one lucky girl.
14. I appreciate that you make me feel loved. It's one thing to have a marriage, it's even one thing to have a good marriage, but it's an entirely different thing to have a great marriage where I feel like you are my best friend and my soul mate. I am a firm believer in that people want different things and that no one has a right to judge anyone else's relationship because what works for some people doesn't work for everyone, but you make me feel important and special and that's more than some people get. I want a marriage that feels like it could and should last an eternity and I have that with you so thank you for all the ways you make me feel special.
I hope you guys didn't mind the sappiness and maybe this post made you realize a few things you want in a relationship or maybe it made you appreciate the relationship you already have. Whatever, the case, have a great day and don't take yourself or anyone else for granted.
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