My guy...

Can I just tell you how much I love this man?
I had a rough week last week. I was stressed out at work. I was stressed out at home. Twice Mike had to sit on the phone and listen to me cry on my drive home from work.

I have been at this job for 3 months now. It’s a huge company, and I am working in the Environmental Health and Safety department. To say that my boss is difficult would be putting it mildly. I am her third employee to fill this position. The one before me lasted less than a month. Mike and I have agreed that I would work until the beginning of December and then quit to move and stay home with the kids. We realized that it would be more cost efficient for me to stay home rather than work and only make enough to pay the babysitter and gas in my car. After last week we agreed that I can either quit a month early or continue to endure to the end (our end) so that our kids can have a better Christmas. I am still on the fence while enduring!! I keep going back and forth, because I keep thinking that if I can hack it a little longer, then the kids can have a better Christmas and I can get all the new clothes and shoes they need before quitting and the burden falls to Mike. But with all this hacking and enduring, I am stressed out!!!

So last week Mike called me and asked me if I wanted him to stop and pick up new church shoes for Konner on his way home. I told him no because, well honestly… I was afraid he wouldn’t get shoes that I like, plus my income goes to the children’s needs. But he insisted, so I agreed but told him to bring me a receipt! He came home LATE that night with his arms full of bags. He bought all the necessities for the kids that I have been needing to go get! He bought both of them church shoes, he bought both of them PJs, he bought both of them a few pairs of pants, and he bought me a box of the yummiest chocolates, a gift card to Bath and Body Works, and then handed me some cash to add to my fund for Christmas and Kay’s birthday. Then he hugged me and told me that he hoped this lessened my stress load. How is sweet was that?!?

As I am sure you guys have figured out about me, I am not the warm and fuzzy, affectionate gal. I am the cactus behind all the walls! Sap makes me so uncomfortable that I fidget and must run far away!! But Mike’s thoughtfulness made me feel a bit warm and fuzzy. And it made me realize just how much more I love him than I thought I did when we were running up $600 phone bills living in 2 different states years ago!! ...Still really sorry about those phone bills, Jim....