Oh, make no mistake… This is nothing new.
She has an incredible way with words that will get me every time. She has been rude to me. She has been brusque with me. She’s trying to intervene in my life and my relationships. She’s dragged me out of the house in the middle of the night with obscenely inappropriate demands. It’s impressive that she hasn’t gotten me arrested by now.
And over 20 years… I’d let her do it all again and even moreso. Because everything in my life she has done with me, for me, or even to me… has enriched my life.
I am a better person than I would ever be if it weren’t for you.
My life, my gratitude, and some of the deepest love I can have for a person goes out to you this day.
And as per my promise… I have that view, and two rocking chairs. And we’re both sufficiently on our way to those grandchildren.
Happiest of Birthdays, fiannaharpar
Counting the years that pass in our lives is so much more blessed because counting them means you’ve been in my life that much more.
And if you want to know how she made me cry…
A quick story explaining yet another reason why I am so happily in love with shimmeringjemmy…
For those few that don’t know H has hearing aids. Over the years I’ve developed an international Andrei sign language system. It is not really grounded in any form of formal sign language beyond maybe years of pantomime.
I’ve gotten very good at conveying concepts and topics. For example this morning I successfully conveyed:
“You know, I realize the baby is still asleep, but as soon as you turn on the shower, he’s going to wake up. Don’t worry, I’ll watch him.”
None of this was voiced, only Andrei-signed. And I can assure you, she understood.
Granted, my signing has gotten complex enough that I often go into non-sensical but realistic looking signs. Today, I went into a sign after the above concept. H looked at me, nodded, swung her hips around and did a dance move that could only be described as a sideways froog. I gave her a thumbs up.
She’d countered my non-sensical mime with some of her own… And we’d agreed on our non-communication.
That was awesome. She hugged me and went off to the shower.
She is so muchly with the awesome 
About 4 years ago I took a knee for shimmeringjemmy.
Happily she said yes. And a year later we were married. Today it has been 3 happy years.
YAY!!!!!
I guess she’s not bored with me yet.
Looking at your baby son, while talking to your loved ones and realizing that you couldn’t trade any one for another because you care too deeply for all of them.
