My Knight In Shining Armor All

I am a person that prides myself such that I can do it all, all of the time.  I can plumb, fix, decorate, cook, clean, take care of the kids and do long division...oh, and pick a decent stock every once in a while as well!  I have worked to be an independent woman who fills her days with the pertinent projects that need to be done so that on the weekends, our family can have fun, versus spend the days doing projects....this is now not the case....

I have now become a person that waits for her husband to put up a curtain rod, mow the lawn, weed the plant beds and everything in between.  And it feels awful.

I feel like anything I do will exhaust me.  I feel like every project looks huge and impossible and I feel like there is no way I can accomplish THAT, and still have enough energy to "man" the children when they get home from school.

If this doesn't say it all...Cody looked at me the other day and said, "mom, I don't think you have made a meal since we got home from Ohio on Easter?!"  Ummmm, I think he could be right.  So yesterday I made dinner and he didn't eat it...why bother?

The day and the events and the projects and chores just weigh on me like a looming battle that needs to be fought.  Where oh where is Jim when I need him..again...

And then there is poor Jim.  Killing himself at work 60-70 hours a week.  Another playoff game every other night to worry about selling out, another $2 million gate to sell, another set of problems at work to take care of.  All to walk in the door and deal with mom-the-hippo-can't-do-crap-wife.  UG, would anyone even come home?  I think I'd go to the bar!



But he doesn't?  Jim comes home as soon as he can.  He walks in the door and takes over?  He walks in the door and if he doesn't see dinner being made, offers to cook, offers to take us out to dinner?  He grabs the kids, takes them to their events, gets Emersyn in her PJs...puts everyone to bed.  He helps me get up, he tells me I am beautiful, he tackles the house and lawn and projects like they are nothing.

Is it because he isn't carrying around an 8 pound moving bowling ball in his abdomen?  It is because he is the greatest living man of all time?  Is it because he takes the responsibility of being a man, a husband and a father seriously?  Maybe it is because he wants a really great father's day present? hmmm?

Either way I can't begin to tell Jim how much I appreciate him.  I can't tell him what a great roll model he is for Cody and what an example he is setting for Skylar and Emersyn to look for in a spouse.  I can't tell him that when he walks in the door at the end of the day, he is my night in shining armor.  He is the love of my life and he is everything that a woman could ask for.

He is the most beautiful, wonderful, kind, hard-working man I have ever met.  He is the light of my day and the light of my life.  I thought that I loved him on the day that we married, but I love him so much more today, I love him more than I can ever tell him.

I am so pregnant and so huge and so yuck right now and somehow Jim makes me feel like I walk on air. Somehow Jim makes me feel like I am the most beautiful woman in the world.  He makes me feel like everything about me was made just to please him and that all the extra pounds this pregnancy has added on me, is just icing on his cake.

Jim, you are what makes my heart beat every day.  You are everything.  My days passes me waiting to see your face.  My day passes me only knowing that I get to see you again.  I hope that when this baby comes, I am able to take care of you as well as you have taken care of me these last few weeks...and throughout our marriage.  You are my heaven on Earth, thank you.

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