First Dance

I’m thankful for a guy.  A guy that saw that I was dating someone else, and had been for a while, but decided to ask me out anyway.  A guy that decided he was just going to “see” if I said yes.

I’m thankful for the guy who is my complete and total polar opposite.  We could not be more different.  We have a few things in common, a few, and we’ve developed more common interests over time but we remain completely different.  Our differences attracted us to each other but once married, made life a challenge.  Now we seem to have found a way to work with them daily.  They say that opposites attract, I think we are the extreme of that example.

I’m thankful for a guy who taught me a foreign language: Minnesotan.  I learned the terms “hot dish”, “put on gas”, “pudder” and “ufdah”.  And he was willing to learn another language as well: Southern.  He is now familiar with “I reckon”, “buckwild crazy”, “make the baby Jesus cry” and “sweet tea”.

I’m thankful for a guy that thinks that “entertaining television” is watching a show about fractals.  And that he tolerates me referring to that as “geek t.v.” and making endless jokes about fractals.

Seeing the Manatees at Blue Springs

I’m thankful for a guy who is a great dad and who is my best friend.  He’s even my best friend on the days that I really want to strangle him…..and his fractal.

I’m thankful for a guy that has learned more about yarn, and wool, than he ever imagined and can tell the difference between “merino” and “not merino”.  I’m thankful for a man who helped me develop the shop and keep the spirit of what I was trying to create.

 Hiking in the Adirondacks

I’m thankful for a guy who cannot stop being an engineer at any moment in his daily life.  He is always tweaking something to make my day easier.  Sometimes he’s tweaking something that needs to be “left alone” but other times he figures out how to rebuild something and saves me countless time and energy with his little “modification”.

I’m thankful for a guy that I can “stick together” with through thick and thin.  We’ve stuck together through joys and trials.

I’m thankful for a guy that I can see the sites with… the good and the bad.  From the beauty of the Loire valley or Yosemite to the not-that-beautiful Managua city dump.  And hey… if I had to be shot at in the inner city of Managua, Nicaragua… at least we were being shot at together.

We’ve journeyed through apraxia and infertility and cancer scares and cross country moves and deaths of friends and deaths of loved ones.  Sometimes life was great, sometimes life stunk.  But I was with you and you were with me….and in the end, that’s all that mattered.

 Wedding Invitation

Happy 11th Anniversary, Dana!

Love you!!!!