| WHAT IS TRUE LOVE? |
It’s that most wonderful time of year again – TIME TO DRIVE MY HUBBY BONKERS!
I had this great epiphany last year that snowmen are NOT a Christmas decoration – they are a
WINTER decoration. Since winter came early this year (you can tell by the dead flowers in the
picture) – I mean, would you not you count 29 degrees as winter? Since it did come early, I think
that justifies digging out the snowmen early this year, too – right??? I knew you’d agree.
So my son calls me the other day from Wally World telling me he’d found THE perfect snowman for
me. In the quest to drive hubby crazy, I am often able to enlist help. So he says, “Mom, it is THE
perfect snowman. He is cute and round. You’d love him.”
Now Josh knows me pretty well, especially in my snowman addiction. He is almost always right
about what I'd like so I asked for more details.
“Well, he’s 6 foot tall…”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa – he’s what?” I exclaimed, trying to envision it in my house.
“Six foot – it’s a blow up snowman for outside, Mom. He is sitting down and he’s fat and round,
just like you'd like.”
He brought it to me this morning and was 100 percent correct – I LOVE IT. I don’t know if I love it
because it is a perfect snowman for the front porch or yard – or because I know, just know, hubby
is going to come unglued.
People might think, “That isn’t love.” They would be wrong.
When we married 14+ years ago, I could only promise him one thing aside from the usual “I will love
you forever” and that was that I guaranteed he’d laugh and have a good time. We did promise
never to become people who act like roommates or lose the passion that so many marriages seem
to lose. We have worked very hard at it and I think we have done a great job!
So when I say that I am driving hubby bonkers, you have to understand that he allows me to do
this by having a great sense of humour about it. It is a running joke we have had since we had a
temporary assignment in Vermont in 2001 and had no Christmas decorations with us. I found a lot
of little snowmen on sale, so we used them to decorate. When we got back home later it just sort
of… escalated. I began collecting unusual ones or ones that I fell in love with.
One year just because it was February and I had yet to take the tree down or put the snowmen
away, he said, “Put the snowmen away or I’m going to take them out” (as in a Mafia hit). Yeah,
yeah, I said, sure. From that point forward, I’ve done everything I can to keep the snowmen joke
going. Oh I won’t go too far – as in get irritating or stupid. And he does love me enough that one
year when he had to go to PA, he brought back to me two of the most amazing snowmen. Plus he
loves the singing Jake snowman who sings, ‘I’m a Snowman” to the tune “I’m a Soul Man.” So…
there is hope for him yet.
The joy in this is that it is something we do for laughter and memories. It is something that we
have a lot of fun with and keeps us close. And it is just FUN.
Joy is true love and true love compromises over… SNOWMEN!
Article Copyright © 2008 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Besides, the people
driving by on their
way to work early in
the morning love it!
driving by on their
way to work early in
the morning love it!
That's his fancy office picture, over there ---------->
JAKE
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