The best husband EVAH!

  • By Mom~E~Centric
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  • 2009

I’ve been promising this post for some time now, so I figure with Valentine’s and We Are That Family having the contest, now is about as  good of a time as any.  The thing is, if I write it all out, it would get lengthy and wordy.  So, instead of writing this out in a manner to bore you all.  I’m giving it to you, right here, in bullets.

  1. August 6, 2001, I received an IM in Yahoo Messenger from “MacGyver" asking me to dinner that night.
  2. He had seen my ad on Yahoo personals & sent me the chat message asking me out
  3. I already had a date with someone else I had gone out with once from Yahoo Personals
  4. The weather caused his construction job to shut down early that day, he sent me a second IM asking me to lunch.
  5. I went.
  6. He asked me to dinner for Tuesday night
  7. I agreed but after my date on Monday night, I decided to just suggest we stay at my place, watch a baseball game and order pizza.
  8. He agreed.
  9. He never went home.
  10. In early September we moved to an efficiency apartment because my roommate was being a pain
  11. In early October we bought a camper for traveling to his various jobsites as the changes came
  12. In late October I called him at work one morning and said, “Can I quit work?”  He said, “yes”.
  13. I started working on line.  I already had one online paying gig for writing, but I began answering the phones for Ms. Cleo (remember her, that psychic crazy Jamaican speaking woman?)
  14. A week after quitting my job, I asked him if we could have a baby.
  15. He said he didn’t want children.
  16. I explained that either he agreed to have a child, or I was leaving.
  17. Two days later, he gave me the nod to quit taking birth control pills.
  18. Two months later I was pregnant.
  19. We moved jobsites to central Florida
  20. I had a miscarriage but got pregnant immediately
  21. I was 38 weeks pregnant, missing my mother and dreading his next assignment which would probably have us moving to Jackson Mississippi.  (I am from Alabama, that’s bad enough, I certainly didn’t want to live in Mississippi.)
  22. I begged him into moving to my home.
  23. We put our camper in my mom’s front yard.
  24. We had a baby.
  25. He found a job.
  26. He worked in a chicken processing plant as an electrician.  Chicken processing as in …the parts of the chicken that are in dog food…like when you see the label “made with real chicken” on your dog food label, it really means chicken heads, guts, blood, feathers and feet…..and that’s where he worked.
  27. He worked there a year, 80 miles one way, 3 days of 12 hour shifts, 2 days off and so on
  28. A year later he got a job offer 20 miles from home.
  29. We had to throw away all his clothes, shoes, watch, and coat from the chicken job.  We even traded automobiles because we couldn’t get rid of the nasty smell.
  30. I wanted another baby.  He did not.
  31. I begged.  He agreed.
  32. I spent 12 weeks on bed rest.  He took complete coverage of caring for our oldest son who wasn’t even 2 and the house and working full-time.
  33. I had this baby at 35 weeks.  I had 3 herniated disks in my back which had rendered me useless for most of the pregnancy.  I had a hysterectomy when the second child was 6 weeks old and major back surgery when he was 4 months old.
  34. My husband took care of it all again.

I could go on and on and on.  Surgeries (back, thumb, sinus), broken bones (thumb, foot,) and the man has never waivered.  My first husband didn’t like to work.  My second husband was abusive in all facets.  My third husband ended up in prison which is where I found him to divorce him.

Now….more bullets:

  1. Since meeting my husband, Wayne, I have only had to empty groceries out of the car and into the house less than 10 times (he broke his leg and was in cast for several weeks plus a knee surgery, I did it then).
  2. I rarely ever even put the groceries away once they are inside.
  3. I don’t take out trash.
  4. I don’t cook.  We either eat out, or he cooks.
  5. I have changed less poopy diapers than most people who are childless.  It makes me sick and he does it just to be nice.
  6. I don’t move furniture.
  7. I don’t pick up heavy boxes (like storage stuff).
  8. I have retrieved nothing from the garage.
  9. I don’t vacuum (see back surgery above).
  10. I don’t do baths and bedtime with our children.  I sit back and enjoy it and do the fun part, reading books and giving back rubs

So, with that, I’m telling you, this man is something special.  He routinely:

  1. tries to ensure we have adequate vacation time
  2. lets me sleep in on Saturdays and Sundays
  3. lets me nap whenever I want
  4. brings miscellaneous gifts home once or twice a week, maybe a magazine, maybe candy, maybe my favorite food
  5. he brings me food to me when I’m sitting and he is up
  6. he brings me drinks if he is up and I am not
  7. he has ironed my clothes before when I was running late
  8. he allows me to be hormonal without being combative
  9. he agreed to go to counseling when I suggested that the two of us had issues with disciplining our children
  10. he trusts me to handle the finances, cashes his check, hands it to me
  11. he took care of kids so I could go to conferences when we owned the daycare
  12. he did all the maintenance at the daycare, helped with grocery buying, loading and unloading all that stuff as well as helped clean toilets there when necessary
  13. he has taken care of the children 2 times in the last month so I could go to Blogging conference

I could go on forever, but if that doesn’t convince you that I have the best husband in the world, you simply must be married to God himself.

I saved the best one for last…..he supports my blogging.  He tries to help as much as possible to make my sites look pretty and presentable.  He also serves as a filter on my fingers and mouth so that I can stay out of trouble.

Now, tell me, who can top that?

I am a mom to two wonderful boys. They are my life. I needed a career where my kids could continue to be my life. We bought a daycare. Now, my boys and I spend all day together. Sometimes I need a mommy break, but mostly, I love it. I am definitely a mom who is focused clearly on her children. That's me, mom~e~centric.

3 Comments

  1. We are THAT family says:

    Wow, sounds like he's a good one!

    Thanks so much for sharing. If I had a prize for the most bullet points--you'd win!

    We are THAT familys last blog post..The S.W.A.K. Carnival

  2. Normal to Natalie says:

    wow. he sounds a lot like my hubs who is busy right now doing baths and bedtime while i sit on my butt and read blogs!

    thanks for sharing.

    Normal to Natalies last blog post..Where in the World is Vitznau?

  3. Laura Ingalls Gunn says:

    I am a bit late in visiting via the SWAK carnival, but what a great post!

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