Father's Day

Beloved is really rather wonderful.  For a guy in his mid-40’s, he is still good-looking in that head-full-of-hair, straight-talking, verging-on-rudeness way.  In the right light, and if I’ve had a glass of wine or two, he can still get my heart beating even after many years of marriage.  Confident in an unassuming, matter-of-fact, Ivy League-educated manner, he has a gift for brusquely cutting to the crux of a situation whether one wants to get to the crux or not.  

At a recent dinner, the husband of the couple we were with peppered our conversation with comments such as, “I’m sorry, I was distracted for a moment looking at my beautiful wife…”, and “well, that’s my wife…always thinking of others before herself!” Thinking of the loads of times I've thought of others before myself, I ask Beloved why he doesn’t compliment me like that.    He responds with a terse, “because I am not a jack-ass.”  Aaahhh.  I knew there was a sensible reason.

He is brutally honest and ethical and will helpfully remind me if I forget the specifics of a situation.  Once, whilst telling a rather fabulous story of my former Holly Golightly PR girl life in New York, he interrupts the conversation to remind me my facts may be just a tad off.  “No, that was when you were hostessing at that restaurant downtown because you got fired for missing too many days of work.”   When I airily dismiss this with a narrowed-eye threatening look and try to go on with my story, he insists, “no, remember you kept making me call in sick for you even though I hate to lie??  Remember??” 

Just so I’m not too harsh, and since it is Father’s Day, I will list my favorite traits of Beloved:

1. He is incapable of saying no to the boys when they ask, “just one more book PLEASE…”
2. He makes me laugh super hard…not always on purpose
3. He is smart
4. He is the only one who thinks Youngest’s spontaneous dances are as heart-wrenchingly adorable as I do
5. He does not care what others think of him
6. He will take on Oldest’s bully tennis instructor in a calm sensible way when I think shoving his racket up his ___ would be the reasonable way to handle things
7. He has a lot of hair
8. He will set-up a complicated computer game for Middle late at night after enduring the longest most stressful day one could imagine
9. He is comfortingly consistent.  You can count on him to say “we are never going to make it in time” or “there is no way all that luggage is going to fit...” EVERY time
10. He has a cute butt

Comments

[Paula]

ok, you've shamed me into it. I will make my list tomorrow. lol xop

[Beloved Blogger]

11. He has a good sense of direction.
12. He looks good in a Tuxedo.
13. He made enough $ to open a hardware store and not travel as much..

[Sara Sterling]

He sounds like a sweet piece of man candy!

[TYFA]

He is! Although, he's mad I said he had a cute butt...

[Beth]

Thanks for reminding me of fathers day. I purchased a wine hamper for my father as he love wines very much,

[Lynn]

I thought for SURE the photo would include a photo so we could see his cute butt!
Love your blog. Makes me laugh out loud every post.

[Sara Sterling]

We want the butt! We want the butt!

[electronic cigarettes]

I got my dad a scrap book.