My Husband: My Life.

I'm so grateful for my sweet spouse.  Not really for anything in specific lately, but just kind of for everything lately.  My Bradley is so good to me.  Every day he comes home from work and tries to be so supportive.  I complain and whine and moan about being pregnant and he is so wonderful and is always there for me.  Regardless of how far I push him and what mean things I say, how unreasonable I am, he just continues to trudge on and be sweet with me and do everything he can to help me.

Brad is my true Prince Charming.  He is wonderful.  He is perfect for me.  He is a long list of things I couldn't ever finish.  I'm just so grateful that he is mine.

My Amazing Man

There are some days I look at my life and I am just overwhelmed with how wonderful it has turned out to be. It is in no way perfect, but in a lot of ways it couldn't get any better. My Bradley is mostly to thank for those days. He has been especially attentive and amazing lately and I don't know what I would do without him.  Just to name a few examples of things I love:

-When he talks to sweet baby girl.
-When he comes up behind me to hold me and baby girl.  Or any time he rubs my tummy and gives me that look of pure bliss and excitement. 
-He is always on top of the garbage... Sounds silly, but it's so nice to have one thing that I never have to worry about, and trust me, I'm great at worry!
-With how crappy I've felt (this whole pregnancy) he has picked up SO MUCH of my slack over the last 4 months. He is ready and eager to help with any household chore. 
-He remains patient with me. I wasn't an easy wife to put up with before Nugget was created, but I'm turning out to be a tyrant of a pregnant woman and he has been so great about staying calm when I'm being a beast. 
-The way he looks at me.  I always read about it in fairy tales or saw it in movies, but Brad truly has a look and smile that he gives only to me and it still makes me melt after over 6 years of being together.
-How much he makes me laugh.  It's usually the dumbest little things, but we can just giggle for huge amounts of time and it does amazing things for my stress level!
-The many back rubs I've gotten lately.  This little chica does not do anything good for my lower back and I'm constantly whining or cringing about it. Thanks heavens Brad is right there to rub it out and try to alleviate some of the pain, most of the time without me even asking!

I could go on and on, but those are just a few of the things that I'm especially grateful for lately.  It would take me days to write all of them! Love you, sweetie.  You are my world and the best future daddy out there!

Thanksgiving Week 2014.

After the most terrifying night of my life and almost losing our sweet baby (yes, everything is ok now) I was put on bedrest for the whole week of Thanksgiving.  (Did I mention he brought me flowers the day after the craziness?  My own prince charming!)  There was so much do to and so many places to be and it made it very difficult for me to keep up good spirits while laying on the couch - especially with so much family around and so many fun things to do.

The thing that made everything ok...the thing that usually makes everything ok...was the constant and outstanding support of my amazing husband!  There was cleaning and cooking to do leading up to Thanksgiving and Brad took care of all of it.  While we were at family festivities he always made sure I had food and beverage whenever I needed it, did extra chores at my parents' house to make up for my lack, and spent time with me when everyone else was around the table socializing and I couldn't participate.  He made the holiday so much more bearable and I literally could not have handled it without him.

Not only that, but after all the cooking and cleaning was done on Thanksgiving, he voluntarily and with a smile on his face pushed me around Temple Square Friday night in my embarrassing wheelchair, and didn't complain once!  We got left several times, separated from the group, I got crabby, and the whole time he just grinned and bore all of it!  I'm positive there is no one as patient as my man.

Then, on Saturday, after a crazy morning of family pictures, Brad and my siblings proceeded to decorate my whole house, including the tree, for Christmas, per my request.  Even though he was exhausted from the crazy week and his really only time off this whole year, he trudged up and down the stairs, carrying boxes, unloading red after green after sparkly decoration, and proceeded to help "deck our halls" AND did it all while letting me watch "White Christmas" from my spot on the couch, for the first time this year (yes, I said first...I'm a little obsessed and he's wonderful about putting up with it playing over and over again in December).

He made it the perfect holiday week.  What could have been an excruciating week filled with worry and more trauma, ended up being a wonderful holiday with my family and zero concern about things getting done.  I love how dependable my Bradley is and it's so nice that I can count on him always.

To top it all off, while I still haven't been feeling 100% this week and trying to get back to normal life while he goes back to work, he's taken the days in between shifts to put up Christmas lights, and clean up the house.  Could he be any more wonderful, and could I be any more ungrateful?  I've been a pretty terrible pregnant partner and he has been a champ through this whole thing, just asking how he can help me while I vent and complain to him every day.

In a nutshell, I'm just so grateful for a man who takes such good care of me, even when I don't deserve it.  He loves me unconditionally and is constantly serving me, and I need to be better about being grateful and acknowledging the many, many things he does on a daily basis.

I love you, honey.  You truly are the best!

Taking Care Of Me... August 2014

I didn't realize how traumatic a week in the hospital could be.  I have always considered myself a fairly tough girl, and even though I have a lot of medical problems, I feel like I tend to bounce back quickly most of the time.  Well, this time has been different.  I'm hormonal, crazy emotional, clingy beyond reason, super sore, having hot flashes like I'm 60, not healing like I think I should be, and all around kind of impossible to please.

  I know this sounds like it's a lot about me, but I had to give some background as to what my sweet husband has had to put up with for the past few weeks.  Not only did he spend every minute that he wasn't working for 8 whole days in the hospital at my bedside/my beck and call, but since we've been home he has done anything and everything to make me as happy and comfortable as possible.  He's been picking up any and all of my slack, doing laundry, dishes, cleaning, cooking, taking care of the dog, you name it.  Not only has he taken care of the things that I can't do for myself yet, but he has gone above and beyond to take care of my personal needs: making sure I take my meds on time, getting me food and water... Like I said, I've been overly clingy and needy and he has done more than his best to be with me and hold me and comfort me... Back massages, arm scratches, I could go on and on about all the things he has done for me, let alone working a full time firefighting job, and all the while keeping that smokin' hot smile of his plastered on his face.  I really don't know what I did to deserve such a loving, caring, and patient man, but I am so grateful and humbled to have him by my side thru thick and thin... And lately it definitely seems like we excel in the thick department.  Thank you so so much for everything you do for me honey 😊 I don't know what I would do without you! Really though, no idea.  I love you!

11.18.14

I had an especially hormonal day yesterday.  Crazy grumpy. Extremely outraged over dumb little things. Just ridiculous really.

Needless to say, I was no fun to be around...especially for the husband who gets the brunt of everything... But when I came home from work I found the following:
-Main floor cleaned up
-Clean towels hanging up
-New over-the-stove fan installed and ready to use
-Bed made
-Laundry put away
-Dog walked and fed

I'm sure I'm missing something, but you get the picture. My man is amazing. On top of that we had planned to make and take dinner to some friends so as soon as I got home he went right to work helping me get that done after he had already gotten meat out to thaw and rolls out to rise.

We had a fun night with friends and he did so much for me so of course I came home and just loved on him, right? Yeah, no... After all of those wonderful things he did during the day, we got home and I went right back to being pregnant and crazy 😵 I proceeded to chew him out for nothing and be a lameface and he just took it. And then in the middle of the night when I finally came back to rationality and woke him up to apologize and kiss away my sorrows, he just forgave me right away and followed it up with a completely unnecessary apology.

I just don't deserve him, but am so grateful he is mine. I don't know how he always has so much patience and continues to love me, but I know it means the world to me. I love you Bradley Withers! You're the best man I know... By a long shot!

I'm lazy.

I've had these sitting in my Wunderlist forever, so I just figure I'd put them where they belong :)

-Made the bed as close to how I like it as he could - 3.2.14
-He makes sure to "take care of me"
-He is always concerned with my well being
-For putting up with me throwing game night and parties on the fly
-He makes me laugh

• 10/29/13 "They're in the first drawer with the rest of the stuff"...where the streamers are...while he's half asleep

-He takes out the garbage every week he's home
-He mows the lawn every week he's home

I am just so lucky.  I can't believe I ever even forget that for a second!

Comes In Waves...

My posts come in waves that is, not my husbands work ethic. Brad finally had some days off this week between fire shifts and what did he do? He did all of the paperwork for us to get a truck, not to mention staying on the internet all day to find us one, he did the laundry, did 2 loads of dishes, went and ran errands and shopping for me, played with our dog, brought me lunch at work, and I know I'm missing some, but basically he worked his booty off while he was supposed to not be working. I really am the luckiest girl ever :-) thanks for all you do honey! You are wonderful.