Time for an anti-vent!

I have been a little slow updating the blog of late, my bad – but as everyone knows life has a way of steamrolling the best laid plans of mice and men! And I haven’t been blogging long enough to have it ingrained in my soul like some bloggers – so I am able to still go a day without checking in.

That being said, I thought today I would do something a little different than my stated ‘venting’, let’s call it an anti-vent! And on that note…

My wife rocks!

I say that with enthusiasm and pride and not, as I’m sure some of you might think, in the hopes of somehow getting out of the two months of unrestricted sexual favours I was informed that I owe her as of last night! (After all, why would I even want out of that?)

But back to my main theme here – the wife rocking – She does! I may be the one who brings home the income (only because we both agreed that one of us really aught to raise the children and that giving over an entire salary to a daycare made no sense to us, which is not meant as a knock on those who choose to, or have to.) but she is the glue that holds the family together!

One forgets on occasion just how much work being a full time wife and mother can be! Honestly, I sometimes wonder how she does it.

Let’s just look at the last week or so… Let’s see, she’s dealt with an ear infection in the big kid, chicken pox and conjunctivitis in the little one and my having a cold (which is probably the worst of the lot – I’m suffering damn it!). She’s planned out our meals for a month in advance and done the grocery shopping by herself (well, the baby might claim that she ‘helped’) saving us a lot of time and money in the process. I haven’t had to buy lunch in over a month and at $4-5 a shot, that is a pretty good return on her time investment!

This alone has made life happier for everyone, eliminating the 5 o’clock ‘what’s for dinner’ question! You want to know now, look at the list on the fridge!

And this past weekend it seemed that our dishwasher of 10 or 11 years had finally gone to the soup kitchen in the sky. Now after having to spend a day washing the dishes myself and then having to hear her go on about it for a second day – I came home and said let’s go buy a new one, expense is no object! ($700 is a small price to pay for a happy wife – you married guys know what I’m sayin…) So we go look and she doesn’t like what is available locally. Come home and instead of ordering one off the internet, she sits herself down on the kitchen floor and along with the help of one sick goopy eyes crying baby and an overly curious puppy, fixes the silly thing!

To say I’m impressed is an understatement! It’s clear to me that I made the right decision marrying a handy woman versus a rich one! (Not that I would complain if she suddenly got rich!)

At any rate, her horn does not get tooted enough – so today I’m tooting it for the world to see!

And honey – you really do rock!

Love you!