From Husband
“On Sunday nights you sit at the kitchen table planning a whole week of lessons. I bring you tea and watch you care about every single student by name.”
“I do not like how we left things, and I know most of that is on me. I am sorry. Let us sit down tonight, just the two of us, and talk it through.”
“The first time you said my name, I felt about ten feet tall. You still have that effect on me, every single day we spend together.”
“What you feel matters to me, even when I do a poor job of showing it. I am sorry I made you feel otherwise. You are the most important person in my life.”
“Our kids have the best bedside manner in town waiting for them at home. Every sniffle gets a cup of tea, a cool hand and a bedtime story.”
“You do all the voices when you read to our kids at bedtime. They think it is magic. I think it is what makes you such a great teacher.”
“You always said every child deserves someone who believes in them. Our baby gets to start life with the best believer I know.”
“I have made plenty of decisions in my life, and not all of them were good. Marrying you was the best one by a mile, and I knew it from the start.”
“No matter how my day goes, the best part is always coming home to you. You make the ordinary evenings feel like something worth looking forward to.”
“For a lot of those kids, your classroom is the best part of their day. Coming home to you is the best part of mine.”
“I have heard a lot of beautiful sounds in my life, and your laugh is still the best. I have spent our whole marriage trying to hear it one more time.”
“People say the first years of a marriage are the best. They have not met us. Every year with you has been better than the last one.”
“We are going to be very old people in a smaller house with a louder television. I have thought about it more than I have ever let on, and I am not worried.”
“You care for strangers all day, and you still come home and care for us. I do not know how you do it, but I am thankful every single day.”
“I know your feet hurt and your shift ran long again. So tonight, dinner is handled and the couch is all yours.”
“Today you are off duty, and the rest of us are running the house. Put your feet up and let us handle the noise for one day.”
“I still remember how my hands shook the day I asked you to marry me. You said yes before I finished the question, and I have been grateful ever since.”
“You pack a diaper bag like you are heading out on a three week expedition. And somehow, every time, you have exactly what our baby needs.”
“I have had jobs I liked and jobs that were a waste of a good decade. It made less difference than it should have, because the drive home was the same.”
“Of all the lessons you will ever teach, the first one is the easiest. You are teaching our baby what it feels like to be completely loved.”
“You pull a face when you concentrate that you have never once seen. I have been looking at it across kitchen tables for half of my life.”
“Something good happens and my first thought is never actually the thing itself. It is wanting to get home and tell you before I have told anyone else at all.”
“At three in the morning I hear you singing quietly in the next room. You are exhausted, and you still sound like the kindest person I have ever met.”
“You see the good in every child who walks into your classroom. Our own kids get that same gift every day, and it shows in who they are becoming.”