To the man in my life...

When David and I were dating (you know for that 3 week period) I asked him why he wanted to be a dentist. His first response was "I want to be home." I hardly knew him at the time but I knew that was the best answer I could have hoped for. Then during dental school I realized I saw my husband arguably more than any other dental wife. David was the first one out of the door every afternoon to come home after he finished his work. Now, I could argue it's because who would want to spend more time at school than necessary or that he's an introvert so he didn't actually care about the social interaction but I know one thing... he never wasted a minute at school coming home to be with his family was his priority.

Now that he's done with school and living the life of an army dentist his schedule is a very straightforward 7:30-4:30. All of his hardwork in school allows him to walk in our door at 4:40 and not have to think about work again till the next morning. There's no doubt he's reaping the rewards of all that schooling.

So this morning I woke up and went through everything we've got going on in March. And the first thing that came to my mind is how amazing my husband is. Young Womens is a busy calling and I'm not even the president (shout out to the amazing Jeni!). I've never been RS president but I would say that is the only calling that could hold a candle to the amount of time put into the young womens program. Mutual, dances, super saturdays, girls camp, youth conferences, meetings and the constant thoughts of the youth that you're in charge of... I wish I would have said thank you more to some of my leaders growing up I had no idea how much of themselves they were giving.

So last night I left at 5:30 to take a soon to be spanish speaking missionary to dinner then headed straight to mutual. I walked in the door at 8:45 and here's what I wrote on the calendar and then related to David... so we're feeding the missionaries Sat night and then we're both teaching this Sunday. Next week I'll have to leave on Sat at 5 for the stake Super Saturday and then on Sunday we're hosting a fireside for all the youth at our house. The Sunday after that we're both speaking in Sacrament meeting. And did I throw a couple of YW camp meetings and mutuals I'll have during the week into the mix? And can I go to the gardening class tomorrow night at the church and will you put the kids down by yourself again?

And you know what his response was? Sure, no problem. He never has asked me if I really have to go to any of these things... he never asks me to cut back. He just picks up the slack and then lets me come home and talk through my entire night. I love that he knows all of my beehives and my concerns and hopes for them. He helps me think out and plan my activities. When we got married I knew he was great but we hardly knew eachother. As time goes on I see him in different situations and get to know and love him more and more I feel so blessed. Sometimes when I ponder how fast we met and got married I think maybe it was just dumb luck. But I know the Lord knew it was right and that's why I felt so strongly that this quiet, humble, family oriented guy was perfect for me. I had no idea just how amazing he was going to be about everything. So here's to my guy who has planned his life "to be home" because it makes all the difference.