mr_illuminated will kill for chocolate chip cookies. So, as I had made a HUGE bowl of homemade cookie dough into stacks of glistening (from the butter ok?) chocolate chip cookies tonight, I became even more adored than usual. Hefting a container of cookies from the counter a minute ago, my contented husband glanced at them with a smile, then wrapped his other ( Read more... )

These 15 years have been a wild ride, my dear! I happily look forward to the next 15 -- and more -- with you at my side. I love you more each day. Thank you for being so wonderful!


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Because I'm doing my final paper on Northern Ireland and there's just SO MUCH that has gone on historically that led up to the current fighting there, I've been driving myself crazy reading everything I could about it in an attempt to learn how all this really started ( Read more... )

Seeing the humongous amount of background reading, intensive online research, and writing I am doing as I finish the last week and a half of my term at university, Mr_Illuminated not only took the baby out of the house and kept him away all day, but when they returned from the grocery, hubby was bearing fortification in the form of a big bag of Hershey ( Read more... )

Seeing my confidence and stamina faltering on page 2 of statistical analysis and interpretation for my paper, mr_illuminated gave me a mug of the last of the French Silk ice cream, and ate a lowfat fudgsicle himself.

My hubby is a hero of the revolution.

I'm a lucky dog.

I'm loved.

:)

::cuddles the hubster::

on training exotic animals -- and husbands. ;)

Please read Amy Sutherland's wonderful article What Shamu Taught Me About A Happy Marriage, about how she discovered -- inadvertently, while writing a piece on training exotics -- the keys to a less stressful and more blissful relationship with her husband. :D It is truly a great and very fun read. ( Read more... )