The Best Husband Award

After much thought and deliberation I have decided the best husband award should go to Andy.  This is why I feel he qualifies for this great honor!

This last week I took Eliza in to her well check up the day before enrichment.  The kids have all had little sniffles and with Eliza fevering off and on I didn’t know who to ask to keep the kids.  Andy assured me he would be home early on Thursday and he could keep the kids.  I was envisioning him home around 3 or 4 pm.  Eliza was whiny all day and Daniel refused to take a nap.  Bradley was tired and whiny after school and wanted to know why Dad couldn’t pick him up.  I still needed to shower, help Bradley with home work, clean the kitchen so they could replace the flooring on Friday morning, feed the kids dinner, and get ready for enrichment.  Eliza kept crying and clinging to me, Bradley and Daniel kept fighting and crying and it was almost 6 and Andy still wasn’t home.  I was about ready to loose it!  Andy walked in about 6 pm, right in the middle of me fighting the boys to get them to eat and Eliza crying.  I handed everything to him.  I instructed him to finish feeding the kids, find his own dinner, bath the kids and get them to bed.  Then I walked out with the sound of at least two kids crying.  I did feel a little guilty about dumping everything on him, but I was at the end of my rope.  I enjoyed enrichment and came home to a clean quiet house.   Andy had dealt with Bradley vomiting after I left, got the kids bathed and into bed, and then cleaned my kitchen.  When I say cleaned I mean he washed the small loaf pans that have been sitting next to the sink for a month watching for me to feel like doing them, all the big dishes, he re-tin foiled the catch plates under the burners on the stove, cleared off the top of the fridge so it could be moved, and swept the entire house!  I was so relieved to see that I didn’t need to spend any time cleaning when I got home.  When I asked him why he wasn’t home earlier since he said he would be home early, he apologized and told me he had had a terrible day.  I asked what had happened and he proceeded to tell me that one of his patience died, two had taken a turn for the worst, and all the paper work etc… had just taken longer that he thought.  He never let on to how bad his day was before I left.  He just hugged me, told me he loved me, to be safe and have fun.  That is why Andy is receiving the ‘Best Husband of the Year Award!’

This is Andy getting ready to study one day last week while I was visiting teaching.  I told him I thought he was getting too comfortable to start  studying at 8:30pm after a busy day.