Column: Savagemama

Top Ten Reasons I Love My Man Today

By Jennifer Savage, 4-04-08

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted a column and while this is not exactly a column, I thought I’d send it out anyway. I’ve not disappeared, I’ve just been watching a remodel unfold in our house. EJ is getting a new room (or getting a room I should say) and Seth’s dad is here for two weeks to help with putting up walls, installing heaters and basically turning our guest room into a kid friendly place.

So since Seth is working all day only to come home and work all night, I thought it time to list off the top ten reasons I love my man today. Here goes:

1. He started a new job yesterday on the Missoula Art Museum and had the choice of many carpenters in town to help him. He picked a woman and I think that’s pretty rad.

2. He offered to drop off my belly cast today at a birth art show that opens tonight so I didn’t have to lug Eliza across town to do it.

3. He sharpened his chisels last night just so we could hang out while I finished said belly cast even though he was dog tired. 

4. He went to the garage last night to find fishing line (again for the belly cast) and came back with the perfect copper thread that allowed me to finish a photo collage to go along it.

5. Two years ago, when my water broke with Eliza, he came home, calmly got us ready to go to the doctor and took the time to take pictures before we went.

6. He’s been getting up with Eliza at night and snuggling her back to sleep.

7. He had pancake batter waiting for me Monday night when I got home from a late meeting because I was having a deep craving for wafer thin, almost burnt blueberry pancakes.

8. He danced with me, and my pregnant bootie at the Michael Franti concert last week. I have a huge crush on that six foot six dreadlocked man and Seth understands it. He has an equally significant star crush on Neko Case.

9. He called to tell me about an eagle swooping down toward Flathead Lake and the mountains in the distance when he was working in Polson this week.

10. He makes better biscuits than I do and will probably make them if I ask him to tonight.

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