Ode to my Husband

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I am very happy tonight because my husband is home!! He was gone for five days, and that was "too long time" as my neice Jessica once said. I am very thankful for my husband. I think I have the best husband in the world in fact. Am I a newlywed? Nooo- we have been married 22 years. Neither of us is perfect, but we just love each other anyway. It is great to be old (well middle aged) married people, because things that would have been a big fight when we were in our twenties, we now calmly discuss and that's the end of it. We both like peace and making each other happy! I am very blessed. My husband is so good and sweet and patient it amazes me. He says he doesn't know how I've put up with him all these years, and I don't know how he's put up with me- maybe the secret is focusing on the good things. When Steve was gone it was doubly horrible because I couldn't get in touch with him on the cellphone, and it was a very disconcerting and unpleasant feeling- I almost felt like he was "gone" like my parents, because sometimes I think I just HAVE to call or drive or walk or do ANYTHING to go see my mother, and of course I can't= and the same kind of feeling came over me of this kind of horrible panic when I couldn't get through to him. oh, I don't ever want to go a day without my husband. When my parents were both so sick, I used to pray and ask God to at least let me keep ONE of them. It seemed kind of cruel at times that he took them both within ten weeks. Looking back, I realize sometimes the hardest answer is the best one- they never had to live without each other. When I think about how it would be for me if my husband died, I am glad neither of them had to go through that. My mom lived ten weeks without dad, but she knew she was going to join him soon, and I think it actually made her feel better because she knew he had gone ahead and was waiting for her. My mom always loved Steve a lot and he loved her just as much. I wish I could call her and talk to her about him- she would be very happy and proud. He took his vacation time to take his elderly mother up to Ohio for a family reunion- not exactly a fun trip for him- and that's why he was gone. Maybe it was worth it for him when he got home and had a very happy wife who was thrilled to see him!! I am a lot happier at work now that I am back on nights, but I don't want to go to work the next two nights and leave my sweetheart. At least I can call him though. oh well, that's enough besotted love talk from the silly middle aged married lady. My husband is the greatest and I love him a lot!!!!!