Husband of the Year

48 child free hours

November 21, 2011

Is there something in the Bible that says, “thou shall pawn your children off on grandparents and go be husband and wife once in a while.”?  No? Well there should be! A few weeks into Craig’s football season, we realized it would likely end without an extended season due to playoffs.  So we started talking [...]

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Football season: the update

October 19, 2011

The house was a mess. The floor a dumping ground for Legos, stuffed animals and six or seven Elmos.  The kids were disheveled and I was past the point where I cared. They were happy. They were content for a few minutes. And I was taking a much needed breath. Craig was in the middle [...]

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The Honeymoon Story

September 1, 2011

Two days after our “I do”s, we hopped a plane and headed to Mexico for our honeymoon.  The Riveria Maya was beautiful. White sand, blue water. Free food and drinks all the live long day.  I am sure this is what Heaven looks like.    Aren’t the drinks pretty??   Because everyone needs a picture with [...]

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We danced anyway

August 18, 2011

I forget who suggested the dance lessons.  Whether it was me who wanted to show off a bit in front of our wedding guests or him, perhaps with a fear of dancing in front of 250 of our closest and dearest.  But for weeks we practiced to Natalie and Nat King Cole’s “When I fall [...]

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Ten Years Ago

June 23, 2011

Ten years ago this week, I met my husband.  He’ll tell you we met a few months earlier and that I paid no attention to him.  And, well, he’s not wrong.  He’s not right, but he’s not wrong.  Fresh out of college, I was working my first job at a tourism promotion agency. With a [...]

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You can get mad, but you can’t stay mad

May 18, 2011

A while back, maybe six or seven years ago, Craig and I were spending our usual Fourth of July week at the beach with his family.  It was mid-week and Craig was being a wee bit pesty.  If he wasn’t picking on his mom, reminiscing about the day she dropped him off at college football [...]

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Just a game

November 30, 2010

I got to the game early.  Really early.  I watched the teams take the field for their pre-game drills.  One team, dressed in blue, was calm, methodical and quiet as they stretched their hamstrings and quads.  The other, dressed in red, was excited, edgy and loud as they chanted the counts.  The coaches walked through [...]

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A good football wife doesn’t say this…

November 16, 2010

“I have a love/hate relationship with football season.”  I left that as a comment on Sara’s blog earlier today and it hit me that it is exactly how I feel.  Love. Hate. I go into those first few weeks of pre-season, three-a-days kicking and screaming.  I hate that it means the end of summer, I [...]

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I’d rather be coaching football

October 18, 2010

She had been awake for less than an hour.  Less than sixty minutes of banging cabinet doors, turning on every toy that plays obnoxious music and constant running back and forth between the living room, the office and the kitchen.  I was rearranging cabinets.  Locking up the ones that housed glass lids, sharp objects or [...]

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Family Pictures

October 8, 2010

Early in our relationship, Craig learned three things about me.  1.  Cards are as important as the gift.  I want to know that you stood in Wal-Mart and agonized over a card that would say the perfect thing to me on my birthday, anniversary or Valentines Day.  Yes, I know that maybe they are a [...]

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