In the Dailies

When I started Mama Loves a couple months ago, the initial focus (for me) was on positive aspects of parenting. It’s so easy to get lost in the exhaustion and frustration of parenting that moms sometimes forget or maybe just overlook all the good stuff. But wives often do the same about marriage. I love women’s groups, moms groups, girlfriends, all kinds of female bonding, but, if given enough time, these groups almost always turn into bickering sessions. Each woman there wants to out-do the rest with her sob story of how fat she is, how difficult her life is or how her husband is worse than everyone else’s. We claim we’re just “sharing” and that it’s all in good fun, but I hate it. Today I want to focus on marriage and how wonderful my husband is. No, this is not in honor of that Hallmark holiday later this week, the one we never celebrate in this house. It just happens that this week God reminded me how good I have it in the marriage arena.

This mama loves her man!

As you know my new laptop, Tamar, arrived last week. The night we ordered her (a couple weeks previous) Rick came home from work and told me how he had thought about getting me flowers, but then realized we would be spending all that money on a new laptop that night, so … well, out the window the flowers went, figuratively speaking.  But then, the day my FedEx man brought me that wonderful Dell box, I received another box. The UPS man delivered eighteen gorgeous roses and a little note. It simply said “I love you.” Now, I love receiving roses, but I have to say: they’re even better when you’re not expecting them and you have two adorable children next to you counting them over and over and praising their glory!

After more than ten years of marriage my man still sends me flowers for no reason. He still thinks I’m beautiful, even after witnessing two alien babies emerging from my nether region and knowing, while I may talk about it a lot, I may never actually lose the extra thirty pounds of “baby fat” I still carry. He still laughs at my jokes, even when they’re not funny. He thinks I’m talented and smart and capable. In spite of the mistakes I make every single day, he still thinks I’m a good mom. He endures my wacky family and my stubborn personality. His laugh still melts my heart, and his smile makes me weak in the knees. He supports me in everything. He never complains about doing the dishes or the lawn or going to work while I stay home.

Oh, we have our disagreements; don’t get me wrong. Interior decorating is just the beginning! I still have friends who wonder how (or why) in the world we got together. But I look around, I look back and I look forward and all I see are blessings involving this man. I am rich in life because God gave me this husband.

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