It is really cool being married to your best friend, and raising a family with him is even better. I know the "I married my best friend" thing is wildly cliche, but Kyle really really is my very best friend. Maybe I feel a tad more entitled to say it since we actually were friends for a loooong time before we rekindled the romance. Regardless, I love him as a husband AND I like him as a friend and that is simply wonderful.
We got to spend the first part of the week as a family, both of us on vacation. Christmas was great, time with both our families and our own family tradition of gifts and splendiferous breakfast a la Kyle here on Christmas morning. He picked out the very best coffee maker for in-home use that there is, with all the science and jazz about brewing the perfect cup of coffee and all that. I picked Apple TV for him, and we are both having a beauty of a time with our respective gifts.
Yesterday we had set a 10:00 AM date for Reclaim the House from all the Christmas crafting and gift giving/receiving. I would imagine most households go through something like that during the holidays. With all the baking, gift making, gift wrapping and other holiday-cheer spreading tactics, your home just kind of gets taken over. It was great to work together to do a top to bottom, left to right declutter and clean of our home.
We also got to babysit our niece Avery yesterday while her parents (Kari and JB) went to a State basketball game with Frank and Annette. She came over at 3 and we had her until about 11. Things went swimmingly well, and I feel pretty encouraged about having 2 of our own in the house. I know it won't be that nice temporary feeling that a babysitting gig gives you, but between Kaleb not completely falling apart over me taking care of a baby and Kyle being helpful and just generally aware and intelligent about the things it takes to care for 2 kids, well, I'm encouraged.
I am a very blessed individual, to have landed the partner in life that I did!
About Me
- Miss Madly
- My husband, Kyle, and I are the proud and busy parents of two little boys, Kaleb and Jacob. Kaleb joined our family in December 2009 and we welcomed Jacob in April 2012. We both work full time outside the home, I am in the field of Learning and Development. I have a passion for studying the brain and how we learn, which translates beautifully to watching my boys grow up and discover their worlds. I'm also into learning about nutrition, herbalism, food-as-medicine, natural alternatives, and homeopahtic remedies. I hope to provide an uncut view of what life is really like as a working mom, minus the instagram filters and facebook bragging...I'll save that for facebook ;)
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