10 Things I Love About Him

WARNING: DISGUSTINGLY SAPPY POST…

In honor of Valentine’s Day I thought I’d let the Internet know a few reasons why I love my husband.

1. His smell. I’m very particular about smells. And I smell everything. It’s a real deal breaker for me. In fact when we brought Jack home from the hospital I wasn’t so sure I liked the smell of him and it literally scared the shit out of me. It didn’t take long to figure out that I was wrong… he is the best smelling thing in the world next to EZ. Which is a good thing because it doesn’t look quite so strange to be smelling your baby’s neck as opposed to your husband’s ear.

2. He rarely farts, burbs, swears, or watches sports. If he didn’t have man parts I’d think he was a woman. And if he wasn’t quite so fond of me I’d think he was gay. No, really, in all seriousness, he is probably the most civilized (not that sports watching men are not civilized… at least the ones that aren’t drunk) adult I’ve ever met.

3. He’s a huge homebody. I’ve tried to fight it over the past few years in an honest attempt to try to make/maintain friends but really, I’ve always been a homebody too.

4. He’s very connected to his family. I never went through that “I’m embarrassed by my parents” stage (well, maybe a little when Don would pick me up at the roller rink with that gigantic cowboy hat). The fact that he is always thinking about them and how they feel about things and that he talks to them on a regular basis confirms to me his importance of family in his life. And he knows and respects how important my family is to me. We have spent almost every bit of our vacation time over the past five years in Michigan visiting my family. And he has never complained. Once.

5. Having Jack has only made our relationship that much better. I read so much about how some dad’s get jealous of the mother-baby relationship. If he has been at all, it’s news to me.

6. His need for organization (although, sometimes I don’t quite understand it). This paired with my need for sterilization and it is like a hospital in this joint. Some people might not like that, but I do.

7. His respect for how I like things. Clean. Picked up. Put away. I’m sure I’m totally annoying.

8. How he knows I hate surprises yet he somehow has a way of surprising me constantly without surprising me in a way that I can possibly hate it. If that makes sense.

9. He gives the best gifts. Because he listens. For months and months leading up to a special occasion.

10. His writes the best love notes.