Thank you for excusing me yesterday.
I’m waiting on a couple of girls who are doing their dreams, but are so busy doing them, they haven’t gotten round to telling me about them! I can absolutely relate, because hey, I’ve been crazy busy too, so I’ve got three tons (or tonnes, if you’re British) of grace for them. They’ll be back soon!
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So…guess who turned 30 yesterday?
You guessed it – Mr. Simon P. Dwight.
And, in honor of that gorgeous man, and just how much of a dream-come-true he is for me, I’m taking this opportunity to list 30 things I love about him.
Ready? Here we go…
1. I love that he is freakishly good at random games like ping-pong, bowling, and darts.
2. I love that he’s a methodical reader. He’s not a fast reader, but he’s committed. He’s read all of the Harry Potter books, and every night – I mean EVERY NIGHT – he reads his daily Bible readings in bed.
3. I love that he makes way better omelettes than I do.
4. I love that he cleans the bathroom more than I do.
5. I love that he rides his bike to work every day – and still works out several times a week.
6. I love that he gets on the floor with Adlai after work every day, and makes him laugh so hard he can’t breathe. And I love that it makes me laugh, too.
7. I love that I my head fits perfectly on his shoulder.
8. I love that he calls me “my little wife.” (At 5’10″, ain’t nothin’ about me little.)
9. I love that he loves the poor.
10. I looooooove his singing voice.
11. Heck, I love his talking voice. (British accents = sexy.)
12. I love that he has so much grace for me when I can barely hold my life together.
13. I love that he plans our budget every month. Because someone has to do it, and I hate spreadsheets.
14. I love that he prayed me through every night of my depression four years ago.
15. I love that he believes in my writing, my photography.
16. I love that he had enough wisdom to turn down a job in acoustic engineering a year ago because he saw that God had changed his path, that he’d been called into a life of ministry.
17. I love that he likes to watch old episodes of The Office and Frasier over and over again.
18. I love that I’ve sucked him into numerous television shows he’d previously refused to watch: Downton Abbey, Glee, The Bachelor.
19. I love that he moved to America for me four years ago.
20. I love that he fell in love with my home, with my friends.
21. I love that he gets teary-eyed sometimes when he tells me about his grandparents.
22. I love that he is fiercely protective of his family.
23. I love that he knows all the words Skinnamarinky-dinky-dink.
24. I love that he gets the words wrong to just about every song on the radio.
25. I love that he always packs my birthday with “funtivities.”
26. I love how much he loves his friends.
27. I love that he always looks for the good in people, and…
28. I love that he is an amazing judge of character.
29. I love that he changes diapers, that he gets up at 5:30am, that he’s sometimes the only one who can get Adlai to go to sleep.
30. I love that I could think of another thirty things I love about him.
Simon Dwight, you have lived your first thirty years so well. May the next thirty be just as full.
