She calls it like she sees it...so do our kids

While my wife is enjoying the last bit of her maternity leave, she has been taking our kids out of daycare to spend some extra special time before going back to work. Earlier this week, I received a text message that read as follows:

Your second born just told me I have a big head...

In her response, she told him, "Takes one to know one".

Awesome!

She gets excited

My wife has 2 things today that got he very excited.

1. She was able to save $$$ while shopping at Old Navy. What added to her excitement is that she was able to get something for everyone and that makes her happier than shopping for herself.

2. In an effort to have us eat healthier, my wife has found some recipes for cauliflower and was very excited to make a roasted cauliflower dish tonight.

Both things simply illustrate how much she loves her family...Awesome

Rough morning

So far this morning, my wife has had it pretty rough...

1. Watching the original Clash of the Titans, she went through a Family Guy daisy chain of names from Harry Hamlin to Harrison Ford to Mark Hamill.

2. Watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse where Daisy is Rapunzel and the gang have to go get the Rapunzel flower, she asked if that is where the name Rapunzel comes from.

3. Looking at the weather, she saw how it is supposed to be 39 degrees on Thursday. She asked me "What is freezing again"?

When I asked her about how she was feeling, she said that I can't have it both ways. She said that she could be smart or sexy but not both.

I strongly disagree because she does both very well all the time.

Fighting and understanding

My wife is thinking ahead a month about when she will return to work. Her division has just moved buildings and, unfortunately, in the new space, she does not have an office. (Nor do 95% of the people anymore).

When she returns to work, she will have to pump as she is solely nursing our daughter. She is making sure that she will have a quiet, private place to pump where she will not be disturbed. In her notification of this to her boss (and the rest of the chain if command), she is recognizing how other women could bring intimidated by this process of discussing personal information and requesting what is due to her under federal law. Many women might just take the path if least resistance and just use the couch in the ladies rest room.

My wife is not only empathetic of the challenges to other women in the workplace, but she is strong enough to fight for what is right.

To me, that adds up to awesome!

Have to blame someone

You remember how I was sick on my wife's birthday? Apparently , I was able to give her a present. I got a phone call at work and she tells me that she feels awful. Luckily, the boys feel good still.

I was in a meeting and on my way to another, so it was her night to pick up the kids at school. She asked if I could get them and I did.

I dropped the kids off and turned the car around to go to my other meeting and hope that I got there on time (which idid not).

On the way home, I made sure to pick up dinner for her so she would have easy access to food that might make her feel better.

As I walk in the door, I ask how she is feeling. She gave me a look and said, why did the kids have to get me sick?!

AWESOME

Her birthday

Today is my awesome wife's birthday and my third day in a row of being sick. She has not complained once about the plans that I have messed up, although she would be completely within her rights to be disappointed. Instead, she adapted the plans to bring things to the house to celebrate.

I am going to have to make this up to her in a big way.

All in all, she just get awesomer with each passing year.

Outrage

 As she is nursing our 2 month old, she has a lot of time where she is stuck in front of the TV. As a result, she has taken to watching the Today Show, in its entirety. In watching some of the news segments, my wife gets very passionate about certain news stories. Case in point...

There as a story of a family who had a moderate home in a particular suburb wake up one night to find the sanctity and security of their home violated. The cowardly burglars break into the home looking for a quick score. Electronics were bolted to the wall, no cash or jewelery were easily found, no easy takeaways for the burglars. On their way out, they go to the garage and still found nothing to take easily. What they did find was $2500 worth of Girl Scout cookies ready for distribution.

As a aside, we have 2 boys and now with our 2 month old daughter, my wife is imaging the time when our daughter will participate in Brownies and Girls Scouts and the days when Girl Scout cookies will overtake our house (because our daughter sold them, unlike now when we buy way too many boxes) and it brings a little twinkle to my wife's eye. But now, back to the news story...

Out of frustration, the burglars take paint and gasoline found in the garage and pour it all over the boxes of cookies.

My wife yells at the TV, "Why would anyone do that to COOKIES?!"

Awesome.