Birthday Week

This week is birthday week at our house. Scott's birthday was on Monday, and mine's on Saturday. I had this great post planned about Scott earlier this week, until a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thing happened. Our eight-year-old computer bit the dust. Luckily, my smart and always prepared husband backed up 3/4 of our hard drive last weekend for fun. When Scott diagnosed it as officially dead, I panicked. I told him he needed to buy a new one TONIGHT! (it was 8:30pm). I haden't realized before how much of my life is online. Email, work email, facebook, blogging, shopping, recipes, etc. Well, he didn't buy one "TONIGHT!" but we are proud owners of a new desktop that we got dirt cheap and hopefully will last for a while.

So, here finally are the things I really love about my husband who's now in his 33rd year:

1. He's always prepared and very, very careful about just about everything. That's helpful, because I'm not.

2. He loves his family and would do anything for us.

3. He says the sweetest things when he calls me on the phone. A typical greeting would be, "Hello, my beautiful, sweet wife and the woman of my dreams. How are you this morning?" He can get much more elaborate. I roll my eyes sometimes, but secretly love it.

4. He's quick to forgive. Even when I've been really horrible.

5. He's a hard worker and never gives up. Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? I'm learning that in life, the tortoise wins the prize. He's steady and perservering.

6. He loves to dance. I don't, but I love that he does.

7. He does the dishes for me every night.

8. He's not a messy person, but not a clean freak, either. Perfect.

9. He fills the car up with gas for me most of the time. I hate getting gas and sometimes have to go to several gas stations in order to fill my tank. I'm pretty inept at it. He also makes dental appointments for me. Otherwise I wouldn't go. I'm not a completely dependent person, but these are a couple of my quirks.

10. He's incredibly patient.

I love you, Scott!