Not sure how old I am in this picture.... but, I love you Dad.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Father's Day
I know I'm a little bit late on this one, but I just wanted to say that I'm thankful for my father. I don't often have the chance to tell him this because we don't live near each other or see each other, but whenever I speak with him I try to let him know how much he means to me. And now that I am a father my appreciation and gratitude has significantly increased for my own father, as I'm learning how to be a good father to my own son.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The Joys of Marriage
Marital communication can be fun. It can also be very challenging. Especially when each partner wants to be understood by the other, but refuses to understand what the other is saying. Lol.
So the other day, Joy and I got into a doozy of a disagreement. The bottom line though, was that we just didn't understand what the other was saying. Or rather, refused to try to understand. Pride is a communication killer, boy oh boy.
So, in usual me-fashion, I didn't talk to Joy for awhile because she hurt my feelings. Basically, I threw a grown-up temper tantrum. But one thing that I absolutely love about Joy is that she is the first one to want to reconcile after any kind of argument that we have.
Well, next day she visits me at work, wearing a really nice summer dress and looking beautiful as usual, and brings me a white chocolate mocha frappucino from Starbucks. I knew what she was doing.... and by golly, it worked, lol.
On the way home, I decided that I would buy her a card and write in it how sorry I was and what a doofus I am, etc, etc. And of course, I picked up a quart of chocolate ice cream from Baskin Robbins for good measure. :) So I get home and she sees the card and says, "Oh, THAT'S funny." And she pulls out this card that she got for me. Yep.... you guessed it. We got each other the SAME card!
Man.... we probably laughed for a good 5 minutes at each other. And then we relayed our stories of how we chose that exact card and why. And they were virtually the same stories. Either great minds think alike, or we are slowly starting to become more like each other. At any rate, it was pretty funny and it served as good comic relief in light of the disagreement we just had.
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So the other day, Joy and I got into a doozy of a disagreement. The bottom line though, was that we just didn't understand what the other was saying. Or rather, refused to try to understand. Pride is a communication killer, boy oh boy.
So, in usual me-fashion, I didn't talk to Joy for awhile because she hurt my feelings. Basically, I threw a grown-up temper tantrum. But one thing that I absolutely love about Joy is that she is the first one to want to reconcile after any kind of argument that we have.
Well, next day she visits me at work, wearing a really nice summer dress and looking beautiful as usual, and brings me a white chocolate mocha frappucino from Starbucks. I knew what she was doing.... and by golly, it worked, lol.
On the way home, I decided that I would buy her a card and write in it how sorry I was and what a doofus I am, etc, etc. And of course, I picked up a quart of chocolate ice cream from Baskin Robbins for good measure. :) So I get home and she sees the card and says, "Oh, THAT'S funny." And she pulls out this card that she got for me. Yep.... you guessed it. We got each other the SAME card!
Man.... we probably laughed for a good 5 minutes at each other. And then we relayed our stories of how we chose that exact card and why. And they were virtually the same stories. Either great minds think alike, or we are slowly starting to become more like each other. At any rate, it was pretty funny and it served as good comic relief in light of the disagreement we just had.
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