I have much to say about this holiday and every gift giving holiday for that matter:). I happen to live with the most wonderful man in the whole entire world and I have been blesssed to call him husband for almost 15 YEARS now!! I know.....that is a long time and I am not old enough to have been married that long! Yes I know... It is a fact though.. and one I take for granted far too often. Back to Valentine's Day...I almost got distracted..... In the Wheeler Family...we do not exchange many gifts during the gift giving holidays...except with our children.. Between parents we do not and there are a few reasons why. Almost every morning I wake up I have this.....
If you have ever been to my house you will notice that my carpets are usually shampooed....he runs that crazy, loud, dirt sucking machine...I do not know how to operate it and when I have tried, I have failed...miserably!
If you have ever spoke to me or know anything about me you know that I am currently a SAHM and I attend college(I am taking off this semester)...never the less...I am able to do these two huge things BECAUSE I have a husband that provides for that.
If you know anything about Compass Academy you know that my children have to take their lunches to school every day. Most of those days their daddy prepares their luches the night before....for some reason he makes them better than I do????? This all came about when I was sick and he made them... and he started something they won't let him quit:).
If you know ANYTHING about me, you know that I am not a cook....so you guessed it! Mr. Wheeler is the cook in our house most of the time....Although I did cook last night:) Just sayin....
Do I like material things...yes I do...infact I like them alot....
I have a new(well new to me) car that I absolutely love more than any car I have ever owned...and I picked it out by myself:). I have all kinds of fun gadgets that I enjoy playing with.. A couple sewing machines that I work with every now and then....A computer I am typing this on right now....A camera I will post pictures from in a bit... A phone I love to talk on and text and take pictures with... I know, run on sentence...A new tv in my room so that we may watch the weather channel at night before going to sleep...if you know him you know he LOVES the weather channel.....
I also love the things that you can not EVER put a price tag on....watching our WONDERFUL three children...I know they are not always wonderful but they are children and we all know how that goes....today they are wonderful...lol.....I love watching them crowd around and hang on their daddy every night when he comes in....I love that I get to live with my best friend every day of the week....every week of the year and every year of my life from here on out.... I love that some days he may bring me some thing special or text me something really sweet or something for my eyes only:). I love that he has grown to a place that he takes his family to church and tells our children how important the Lord is..... I love that every day or mostly every day I wake up to Valentine's Day, Christmas Day, Birthday, and Anniversary... They are after all just numbers on the Calendar. Tomorrow will be February 15 and I will feel just as much love as I do today on February 14....For all of my friends and loved ones who freak when my reponse to the question, " What did you get for _____________ Day?". My response is usually, " We don't really exchange gifts."
Which I guess I could name off all those things listed and many many more...
There is another side to this story...it is Jeremy's side...He is not here or I would let him type out his response...I can tell you though I do not do as much for him as he does for me..... Daily I am searching for the balance....
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