Our 4th Anniversary

WARNING: If you have jealous tendencies, you better back away from your computer right now. Because this might throw you into a jealous rage.


Yesterday Samuel and I celebrated our 4th anniversary. (No, we never imagined that by our fourth we would have THREE kids. We think we're just as insane as you think we are.) But all that is not the reason you should be jealous (in fact, for that we probably deserve your pity and prayers). THIS is the reason you should be jealous:

1) After dinner, Sam takes full responsibility of the kids. He plays with them, reads to them, gets them ready for bed, and puts them to sleep. While I do whatever I want. (Which is usually something lame like fold laundry. But still.)

2) As long as he is home, I pretty much never change a diaper. And I wasn't the one who instigated that.

3) When the baby wakes up at night, Samuel gets up and brings him to me in bed. I feed the baby, then Sam burps him and puts him back to bed. If he is upset, Sam is the one who is up with him. Once again, this was not my doing - it has been at his insistence since baby #1.

4) When we visit my family, he takes over the kids so I can visit. For example, when we visited my sister Cara in Pittsburgh, he would disappear with all the kids, and leave Cara and I to chat for hours.

5) Each night he writes in his journal and always ends with "I love Janae because ... " and fills in some cute detail that makes me sound way cooler than I am. The best part about that, though, is that last Valentines he combined all those reasons into a book for me.

And you think these are highlight moments of how wonderful he is - the best of the best. THEY'RE NOT! If I told you the best of the best, you would probably leave your husband and come try to steal mine. BUT HE'S MINE AND I'M NOT SHARING so you don't get those kinds of juicy details. :)