Oh I missed this man!

I have already mentioned that he’s home.  I am so glad to see him.  ALTHOUGH I will say I did NOT miss his coat hanging on the living room furniture OR his shoes scattered across the living room floor….now I know for sure where the kids get it.  LOL!  We saw LOTS of this yesterday.  He didn’t sleep much on the trip home so was very tired yesterday.

This was eye candy for me yesterday.  Next week it might annoy me he’s sleeping when the kids are running rampant through the house like crazy people but for today…I am thankful he’s home and next week I’ll be thankful that I can complain about his quirks…ROTF.  (and if you know me, you know I don’t really complain. :P)
And if you’ve ever met my husband, you also know he doesn’t have a romantic bone in his body.  Nope, not one.  He’s not mushy, gushy.  He’s not overly physically affectionate either.  I have always known this and I married him knowing full well that he is who he is.  I love him.  Period.  Yeah, the woman in me misses an occasional mushy comment or hand holding by the light of the moon across a sandy beach…ROTF, but I love him and I know he loves me.  Occasionally, he will step completely out of character and surprise me.  He did this while he was gone. 
I am the keeper of the fundage…so it’s hard for him to surprise me with expensive gifts.  So he warned me that he was taking a rather large sum of money out of the bank and that when I saw where it was going to be spent I’d know what he was up to.  That comment alone made me know where he was shopping….ROTF.  And it raised my hopes of what he was shopping FOR.  He went to Eircil’s Jewelry . All of my “real” jewelry has come from this store…with the exception of my wedding set that we bought from Fingerhut back when we were poor (ok MORE poor-LOL).  It wasn’t an expensive set or even a nice set.  But I  am not a material girl much to the chagrin of Madonna I am sure…and I valued the original set that Pat placed on my finger.  Right after we PCS’d to Germany, I was carrying a laundry basket of clothing through the doorway and smacked my hand on the doorway…losing the tiny diamond that was in my ring.  I cried and NO I did NOT find it.  Pat talked about replacing it and I told him that the ring itself wasn’t worth putting a nice diamond…unless sentimental value counted (it does to me).  I mentioned at the time I’d love to replace the set sometimes.  Our anniversary is April 4th.  We’ll be married 17 years this year. 
In the end the stinker made two withdrawals to equal a large sum of money out of the ATM machine.  He wanted to make me doubt my knowledge.  He wouldn’t discuss it either.  Told me that he had to keep it put away for an additional two weeks after he got home.  GRRR.  I don’t like to wait. I am not known for patience.  Just ask him about my level of patience.  LOL.
So last night, I was lying on the couch and he cuddled up with me and I told him I had found my engagement  ring that had disappeared (it was underneath my desktop computer which was underneath my monitor which of course is right where *I* put it and he didn’t see when he moved the desktop for me).  He jumps up, grabs his carry-on and places a beautiful gold and burgundy box in front of me.  I grinned….and the tears started flowing.  BECAUSE this dude asked me to marry him the same way…by placing a box on the table in front of me (talk about self-assurance…he was pretty sure of what the answer was back then LOL).  He had tears in his eyes and I knew…he was asking again…or at least telling me he’d still marry me.  Thick and thin…I wouldn’t change our marriage.  Even the bad has ended in good.  This man loves me.  He puts up with my mood swings.  He gave me 5 gorgeous children.  I love him.  He is my best friend. 

I made him pose for a picture.  LOL…he hates his picture taken almost as much as I do.