The Real Boss (so say the kids)

 Behind every successful man is a great woman.  Okay, so my wife is the successful one and the great one, so where does that leave me?  Never mind, this is not about me it is about her, but I am writing it so can't I change that and make it about me?  Just because I don't work right now, I get to play all day with the kids and I only shower every second day, just kidding, what makes her so special.


Sleep Deprived Warrior

  From the moment I hired my wife to work for me back some 17 years ago I new by the way she frustrated me and drove me crazy that there was something special about her.  Our working relationship lasted only a couple years as she decided to leave me for another career, although I knew she would be back, not really but I never told her that, and would never leave again.  A few months later she was back for a visit and I jumped on my opportunity by asking her for a drink and the rest is as they say, history.  Well, not quite that easy, but here we are 15 years later, happily married for 12 years with 4 amazing kids, wow.  

  I love a good mystery and yet how my wife puts up with me is one mystery that I choose to avoid solving or for that matter even investigating.  I would like to say it is my charm, humour, good looks and zest for life, but who am I kidding, she feels sorry for me, and my genes helped produce four beautiful kids.  Speaking of those kids, my wife had the hard part of raising them in their early years, where she had nights filled with tears, both the kids and hers, she would be sleep deprived and I would be off playing baseball with the guys.  She has pushed a triple stroller to the school to pick up our oldest boy from JK and had to fight through crowds standing on the sidewalk not moving.  She has stayed up many nights making birthday cakes for the kids that ultimately get devoured in mere moments.  She has patched up boo-boos, wiped tears away and gave kisses making everything okay again.



Ultimate Strength



  My wife has played the part of Wonder Woman, Dr. Quinn, GI Jane, and Judge Judy.  She has listened to me rant about work and provided her insight, whether asked or not, into how to deal with my issues.  She has been through health scares with our son Frack, my father, and myself.  Through it all she has been the one in control asking the questions and looking for resolution.  She checked on my life insurance and looked into increasing it even though it was not a life threatening illness.  Always concerned and thinking ahead, she now has me watching myself around staircases.

  She has a job she loves, almost too much, although wishes she could be home more throughout the week with the kids.  She has four kids that love her and don't miss her (except when I cook something they don't like), but instead treasure their time with her and would gladly take more of it.  After all, it would mean a break from dad, yeah.  She has in-laws that appreciate the mother she is and the businesswoman she has become.  Her father in-law has a special bond with her, maybe because they have identical personalities, there both nuts.  Her mother loves her and admires her for everything she has accomplished, including choosing me as her husband, I think.  As for me, the husband, I love my wife very much and appreciate, more than she could know, everything she does and sacrifices for our family.  I will always be there for her, as she is for me, and I will, of course, go on pissing her off just so that she does not get to comfortable.