Husbands,  Marriage Confessions

He Still Makes Me Smile

Chris ran to Walmart tonight to pick up a few things we needed.  Its always a crap shoot what you’ll get when Chris goes shopping by himself.  The things he comes back with always make me wonder how he even got into the department where a product came from.  One time, he brought home a bag of frozen shrimp.  Not that this is necessarily a strange thing, but we don’t usually – or ever! – have frozen shrimp in our house.  But that night, he wandered by and thought that bag of frozen shrimp was exactly what we were missing in our lives.  On more than one occasion he has brought back a bag of cookies or a box of ice cream cones.  And sometimes he finds more useful things, like Glade candles or fire started logs when we lived in Connecticut.  Its not necessarily that these things are uncommon purchases.  Its just that they certainly aren’t on the lists that I send with him.

But last night, Chris came home with a little something extra…for me.

Now, we all know how rare it is for Chris to bring me flowers without me begging for days on end beforehand.  So, imagine my surprise when these beautiful flowers walked in our house last night.

But we soon realized that flowers were tricky because all of our glassware is boxed and packed up until we move into a permanent home.  Chris and I searched high and low for something to hold the flowers.  Our cups weren’t strong enough to hold the flowers without falling over.  My iced tea pitcher was too big and the flowers just flopped around in them.

And that’s when Chris disappeared into the kitchen for a while.  When he came out a few minutes later, he had made me a vase by cutting the top off of a 2-liter bottle.

Now, I realize that this isn’t really blog worthy.  Men bring their wives flowers all the time.  And soda bottles are used for a variety of things.  But in my house, it was pretty extraordinary.

And it made my day.

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