On Time

My wife is awesome...don't believe me? Try this on for size.

Today, we were able to sleep in because our kids slept. This is very rare. We still read 2 chapters in the Book of Mormon. The we had Family Home Morning (as opposed to FHE) for the first time because my night schedule is always the hard one to work with. It was a lot of fun,a challenge and only took 1 hour which we had estimated. We decided to do this last night, late, and yet my wife had a whole lesson and theme by morning. AWESOME!

She also let me go to the gym tonight. I know that she needs the break, but she wanted me to go. She may not feel like it is a big deal, but it is to me. I love her!

For her birthday

I told my wife that I was going to show her the blog for her birthday. That gives me 3 months to go everyday.

Today she was awesome because she decided that she wanted to finish a full fast with me even though we will be fasting next Sunday.

Also, we sat together and discussed our goals for this year, and i am sure more will come, but it was great to look into this year and know what we want out of it. We have a lot of the same goals and i look forward to tackling them with her throughout the year. I am excited to read with her this year. She says that she isn't much of a reader, but I think that is changing. It was a huge gift to me for christmas. I love her.

All about the change

My wife likes change. We are changing the arrangement in our living room and may be selling a couple things and bringing in some new furniture...I love rearranging things, and it's simple but it makes her awesome.

Time Travelers Wife

My wife is not, or at least was not, a movie watcher.  I am.  I love movies.  Tonight for our "date night in" was watching this movie.  She is awesome because she stayed awake for the entire movie, and got all teary eyed.  I love that she will do things I like...

Why Are We Thankful?

So, my wife was telling our kids (I was there) that this month is the month of Thanksgiving.  That we need to think of the things we are thankful for.  She had the kids start, then she shared one to me.

She said that she was thankful for precious moments.  And what makes her awesome is that she shares them with me and her words are filled with love and awe.  She said that our 2 year old girl hit our 3 year old boy and hurt him.  She made the girl say sorry to the boy, which we always accompany with a hug and typically a kiss as well, so she did.  Then she had the girl give the boy a candy corn, and come back and get one of her own.  The girl proceeded to go to the couch where the boy was lying down and jumped up there with him.  My wife was ready for the next hit, but instead the boy invited the girl to come down and give him more hugs and kisses...not because he was hurt, but because they both wanted to love each other.

My wife is awesome because she is encouraging the goodness that exists in all children.

Only missed one day!

Well, I only missed one day.  That is a major accomplishment.

One thing that happened today that tells me MY WIFE IS AWESOME actually connects yesterday and today.

Last night after working with the 14-15 year old boys from our ward (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) I came home and asked if she would mind me going to play basketball with a bunch of guys.  To prove to her I am not a bum I helped her put the house in order and do the dishes and whatnot.  Anyway, she is cool with it and has to get to bed early anyway.  I leave my home at 9:10pm, arrive and play basketball until 11:30pm, then go to work from there.  That's right, I wasn't finished with work.  I had to do some driving and then get home and finish a project.  I climbed into bed around 2:30am, and the kids started waking up, so really I was sleeping at 3:30.  She didn't sleep well, she told me so at 2:30 and 3:00am.  She had to wake up around 5:15 to teach a body works class at LA Fitness at 5:45.  She probably came home to kids out of bed and playing, but I was asleep the whole time.  She let me sleep until 8:30 or so, and when I woke up she was happy I was able to get extra rest.  What an awesome wife.  She was taking care of all 3 when I woke up, and she then did the homeschooling...amazing.

Does that count for both days?  This may seem like a small thing to some, but it is HUGE in my world...I love sleeping.

so much for that...so much has happened...

I really wanted to make this a regular thing...and then I forgot that I was doing this. It really is a challenge for me to get on and blog everyday. For some it comes naturally as part of their cyberspace/social networking daily regimen. For me...well, let's just say that I have a facebook account and it is lucky if I drop in once a month.

So, why is my wife awesome today? My wife and I have 3 kids. Their ages are: 3,2,1. Yes we are crazy, and we still plan on having more. She is currently meeting with two other mothers who have 3 year-old boys (ours is a boy) and putting on a preschool for them. She doesn't use a nanny or daycare, she just takes care of all three while doing the preschool. How awesome is that?!?!?! Not only that but she is considering homeschooling the kids.  Somehow she still has time and energy to take care of her husband everyday.

I love her.