There is a certain little boy in our home who is rather taken with super heroes. After careful consideration, he has determined that Spiderman is the best. He can climb buildings, spin webs to catch stuff and is a good guy. This favored status resulted in our little guy being Spiderman for Halloween, two years in a row.
The thing that he doesn't realize is that we have our own superhero in our home. He lives under a great disguise, a smart, unassuming computer programmer that loves his family and takes great care of them. But I'm going to let you in on some of his secrets.
He doesn't fly, but he can make children fly! In fact, each night he transforms our youngest into Super Baby! Super Baby flies all over the house bestowing magical kisses on people and filling us all with joy. Now that is a super power.
Our own hidden super hero can also morph. He regularly changes from a ride giving horse, to a dinosaur daddy, to a tickle monster that causes tortured laughing to erupt until just the moment when his victims are about to give in and give out.
Our super hero can make things reappear out of thin air. His specialty is smiles. He can turn a frown to a grin in seconds flat with his secret laser beam trick frown and wailing moan of terror (which surprisingly produces laughs more often than not).
Our super hero regularly rescues fair maidens from distress, well at least one maiden daily. He rescues her from screaming kids, hurtling objects (often found to be toddler super heroes thrown into a dangerous vortex or ramming dinosaurs), broken backs bending over baths, and eyes that sometimes leak uncontrollably for no reason at all.
When our super hero is about, our home is a happy and safe refuge from evil and unhappiness. What luck that we have someone with a secret identity. I hope someday our little super heroes in training will discover their own super identity which no doubt was passed on to them. I see the signs already--trying to leap over great buildings in one jump, trying to make a bed in 2 seconds flat and giving out love in nanoseconds with kisses and hugs powered by super love. I'd have to say we are super lucky!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Husband Role #1 - Lover
My husband is a lover. Yes, by that I mean my own personal lover, but also and more importantly, he is a lover of many things. Shall I list them for you?
He loves
-God
-me
-our 4 children
-our unborn daughter
-his family
-my family
-our church
-his church friends
-his neighbors (real and in the Biblical sense)
-Arches
He loves many more things, but those will all be chronicalled here in time.
He loves with all his heart. He gives all he has for the people that he loves. Understanding how loving can change a person, you understand what a person he is. He prays for people he has met just once or twice to be cured from cancer. He spends nights playing mindless games (Candyland anyone?) with our kids. He puts kids to bed while he sends me off to a hot bath. He gives hours and hours to serve in the church doing what he can to love God and the people he worships with.
I am lucky to be one of the things he loves. I feel it in the mornings when he gets up early to prepare a Valentine breakfast of pink heart pancakes for me and the kids. I feel it while he's gone working hard so I can stay home to raise our family and he calls to say hello and that he loves me. I feel it when he arrives home with a big smile and kiss and arms full of either flowers, or eggs, or willingness to make the salad for dinner. I feel it as we clean up dinner and pause for a dance in the kitchen. I feel it when he bathes our kids so my tired pregnant back can sit and rest. I feel it when the kids are in bed and he asks what I want to do together. I feel it in his warm embrace many times each day.
I am lucky to feel his love, and my hope is that you too feel someone's love and the joy that it brings. And let's all pledge to be a lover, to make someone else feel the life-giving and life-saving power that is love.
He loves
-God
-me
-our 4 children
-our unborn daughter
-his family
-my family
-our church
-his church friends
-his neighbors (real and in the Biblical sense)
-Arches
He loves many more things, but those will all be chronicalled here in time.
He loves with all his heart. He gives all he has for the people that he loves. Understanding how loving can change a person, you understand what a person he is. He prays for people he has met just once or twice to be cured from cancer. He spends nights playing mindless games (Candyland anyone?) with our kids. He puts kids to bed while he sends me off to a hot bath. He gives hours and hours to serve in the church doing what he can to love God and the people he worships with.
I am lucky to be one of the things he loves. I feel it in the mornings when he gets up early to prepare a Valentine breakfast of pink heart pancakes for me and the kids. I feel it while he's gone working hard so I can stay home to raise our family and he calls to say hello and that he loves me. I feel it when he arrives home with a big smile and kiss and arms full of either flowers, or eggs, or willingness to make the salad for dinner. I feel it as we clean up dinner and pause for a dance in the kitchen. I feel it when he bathes our kids so my tired pregnant back can sit and rest. I feel it when the kids are in bed and he asks what I want to do together. I feel it in his warm embrace many times each day.
I am lucky to feel his love, and my hope is that you too feel someone's love and the joy that it brings. And let's all pledge to be a lover, to make someone else feel the life-giving and life-saving power that is love.
My Husband Roles
My husband never has been a rocker or a roller for that matter. But he is so many more things. He is a husband, a father, a friend, a son, a man. There are so many roles that he fills that make the world a better place, certainly for me and my kids, for our families, for people that know him and people that don't.
This blog is my attempt to share with you and, most importantly, with him the many roles he fills in my life and how they all make life sweet and beautiful beyond words.
This blog is my attempt to share with you and, most importantly, with him the many roles he fills in my life and how they all make life sweet and beautiful beyond words.
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