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May 27, 2008

Wow, his thank you made my day

Last night I was exhausted from the holiday weekend and wanted to just crash. By the time I got my daughter to bed it was nearly nine o’clock because time was going by at lightening speed (as it did all weekend). I was feeling pretty bummed that I didn’t seem to experience the weekend and worse still I was tired from it. To top it all off I needed to iron my husband’s shirts for the week and do at least a load of laundry so that we have underwear to wear. The desire to sleep was so strong I thought I might pass out. But, like a trooper, I started the wash.

Hours later I finished, even folding and putting away the clothes rather than having us live out of the laundry bag during the week. By the end of it all I was feeling sorry for myself, no rest for the weary, envisioning my wrinkles chiseled even further because of my hard knock life. (I was being dramatic.)

This morning I awoke to a clean kitchen because my husband, who stayed up later than me grading papers, thought to do that before he went to bed. I’m not even sure he slept any because he has to get up at 5:45 to go to work. (Needless to say I don’t see him in the morning.) Then, the icing on the cake, he text messaged me a note:

"Luv you! Thanks for washing & ironing everything. Dishwasher clean, cats done, trash & recycling done, I won't forget dentist."

That made me feel great. How nice that he didn’t take it for granted that I was working hard and then he reciprocated the favor! He rocks. We’ve been making a pretty good team lately.

Yay

Posted by hopeful @ May 27, 2008 11:08 AM

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