A Birthday Post

In honor of my husband's 41st birthday, and in lieu of an actual present, I present 41 things I love about him:



1)He can lift heavy things.
2) He has more shoes than I do.
3) The slipper dance, 'nuff said.
4) He calls me several times a day just to say hello.
5) He ends every phone conversation with, "I love you."
6) He is friendly, how many people are on a first name basis with the tollbooth collector and receive presents from this person
7) He is heroic in the true sense of the word, not the watered down we all are heroes version of the word
8) He denies he is a hero and thinks everyone would climb into a burning car to save strangers (for one example)
9) The fact that he honestly believes this despite all evidence to the contrary, like the crowd of people who were doing nothing.
10) He will eat anything, to include my cooking.
11) He can build stuff.
12) His butt in jeans
13) Or out of them
14) He is an incredible father
15) He laughs at the children when my first inclination is to reprimand.
16) He is good at taking out splinters
17) He hates talking on the phone more than I do
18) He is an excellent cook
19) He bakes bread
20) He's mine, you can't have him
21) He loves to garden
22) As a result we have the most gorgeous flowers in our yard, despite all attempts on my part to kill them
23) He doesn't laugh when I bring home another house plant
24) Well, not too much anyway
25) When I told him about Blogher he insisted that I go
26) And then hounded me until I made the reservation
27) He is supportive of me almost to a fault
28) He believes in me more than I believe in myself
29) He is athletic and still plays sports like he is eighteen years old
30) All the other forty year old men think he is crazy
31) He admits that he feels his age the day after, however.
32) He keeps me well stocked in pens, in spite of children who eat them (not really, I don't think, but I can't imagine what they do with them)
33) He can make a fire out of twigs, rocks, and a handful of dirt, or so it seems
34) When the door handle on his car broke he fixed it ... with a rope and a stick, until the new part was delivered
35) He handles paying all the bills
36) He irons
37) He can recite every movie he has ever seen
38) He thinks he can sing
39) and can not be convinced otherwise
40) He married me
41) and really believes he got better end of the deal.