I’ve been asked if I believe in love at first sight, and while I suppose its does happen, it didn’t exactly happen for me. But on our first date, a blind date at that, within the first few minutes I knew I found you interesting. By the time we finished dinner and headed over to the bookstore to grab a cup of coffee, I knew I wanted to spend more time with you. After our first kiss, I knew I had to see you again.

We spent every night together that week. We played pool, we went to the museum, we had fun. Within a few months, I knew I was falling in love with you. And within a few years I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.

I have faults. Many in fact. I have many nervous little habits, I have medical issues that are sometimes difficult to deal with, I’m pushy and bossy, I take showers that are way too long (it’s the only place I can finish a thought from beginning to end!) But I bake a mean cake, I can make home made mac & cheese like nobody’s business and I’ll always be there to help you pick the right medication or upload a file in the right format.

You have faults, too. You’re not always the most ambitious, you have a 5 o’clock shadow by noon and you’re starting to go ald-bay in the ack-bay of your ed-hay. But you cook dinner nearly every night and you always rub my neck after a hard-day’s work.

Who needs Hallmark to tell us we have to say we love each other today? You are a wonderful husband and a caring father. You support anything and everything I do. You make me laugh at life.

I had someone tell me off today on twitter and at the end she added that I should be thankful that I have “kids and a man.” And you know what? She’s right. While things aren’t always perfect… we have healthy kids and we have each other.  And when I’m 80 and wrinkled and gray and laughing at some idiot on TV, I want you 80 and wrinkled and gray laughing right along with me.

You are my best friend.

Today, as we’re getting ready to head up to my son’s grandmothers funeral I was furiously cleaning the house, dusting, doing dishes, sweeping etc… I went to clean some glass candle sticks in the sink and something happened, I still can’t remember what it was that caused me pain but it was something – must have been the drain strainer because that’s what I threw. I suppose the drain gods were angry at me because when I threw that drain it bounced of the sink and hit me square in the face. And you know what? I deserved it. I’m now attempting to finish getting ready and at the same time, wondering how I plan to hid this cut and fat lip. Suppose I’ll just say my husband beat me, much easier to lie than say I was an idiot and did this to myself! But *breathe* I feel better now that I’ve gotten it out. Man, I feel so stupid…

I wish this didn’t happen to me!

Its been a tough week. My son just lost his grandmother and we lost a family friend. I wish he’d still let me wrap him up in my arms to protect him from the world. He’s becoming a young man. Twelve years old, we had to buy his first round of Clearasil today, and we’re preparing to go to his Nona’s wake and funeral tomorrow. It made me think of that poem I wrote so long ago for my baby boy.

I’m still trying to locate the actual poem. I do believe its buried in the depths of an old laptop. But I was lucky enough to find this video I posted about two years ago. I may remake this video. It would be fun. I would love to have this book illustrated and someday published. However, I do believe that may be another one of my pipe dreams. Please, enjoy and share with your family, leave a comment below and let me know what you thought. Thanks so much.

A recent episode, apparently, said a few naughty things about us gingers. Red Heads, that is.  Claiming, among other things, that we lack souls. Now, I’m saying “we” however, I’m only a ginger by my cousin, Loreal. A young boy who’s channel name is CopperCab (not going to get any red headed jokes from that one) posted a video claiming that he in fact, does have a soul.

I say, good for him! That took a lot of guts. The video has been parodied and he’s being made fun of left and right. But the video has since gone viral around the internet and has racked nearly a million views. He’s even selling “Gingers have souls” T-Shirts! So any sympathy I had once felt is long gone. I’m glad for his sake, he’s probably rubbing it in the haters faces!