38 reasons.

38 reasons I love my husband, on the occasion of his 38th birthday.

38. You stay far away from me when we sleep.

37. You, being a happy morning person, don’t mind that I’m totally NOT one.

36. Sometimes, out of the blue, you bring me my favorite coffee when I wake up.

35. You unknowingly wore your bow-tie upside down when we got married, which cracks me up every time I see a pic from our wedding.

34. You haven’t brought up the budget spreadsheet to me in the past of couple of weeks. Although I’m sure that day is coming soon now that I said that. Damn.

33. You pronounce “Chanel” as “channel”.

32. Out of everyone in the house, you contribute the least dirty laundry.

31. You agree there is only one choice: a REAL christmas tree.

30. You handle medical situations 1000 times better than I do.

29. With the exception of anything being done to ME. Then you want to pass out. (hello, remember when I got my epidural? And the time when I had to get stitches in my hand? The docs and nurses were more crowded around you than me.)

28. You love my family.

27. My family loves you.

26. You do an AWESOME Sean Connery-playing-Jeopardy impression (a la Saturday Night Live). I personally think it is even more hilarious than Darrell Hammond. Suck it, Trebek.

25. You let me shave your head that time. Which was AWESOMELY fun to do.

24. You don’t care if I put up the Christmas tree before your birthday. Which is just so ridiculous of me. Why can’t I just wait? Because waiting until December 1st just seems like fooooooooorever away.

23. Your brain and its infinite knowledge of all things technical makes my life so easy.

22. How much you support me in EVERYTHING I do. Or attempt.

21. How you never stress about the little things.  Ever. 

20.  How sometimes, if all the stars are aligned, you kind of love Paprika.

19.  Chinese food on Sunday nights.

18. We like to make fun of the exact same people.

17. Sometimes we wonder if those exact same people are making fun of us.

16. They probably are.  Which cracks us up.

15. That time right after we tuck the kids into bed, and right before we go to bed….where we are both sitting on the couches with our laptops in glorious heavenly peace and quiet.

14.  That time right after we both decide we are DONE with our laptops for the night…and we go to our room to watch The Biggest Loser…or The Office…or Lost or one of the other million tv shows I tivo. 

13. How you won’t eat again after you brush your teeth for the night.  That kills me but I love your willpower.  Especially when I’m sitting next to you in bed with a bowl of Lucky Charms.  I don’t know how you resist.  They are magically delicious.

12.  How you never blink an eye about taking care of the boys when I go out with my friends.

11.  Sushi & wine on the front porch while the kids play with sidewalk chalk.

10.  For introducing me to Pandora. 

9. For all the times you gave ME the new car….and you took the old car.  (One of these days, when we are rich, I’m totally buying you a very new, very expensive, very manly gadget-filled car and I promise not to take it from you.)

8. For not making me do the duathlon with you. 

7. The way you look with your skater hat on. (or is it a ski cap? I don’t know. You know that hat though)

6. How I went out to girls night one time and you watched the boys. I thought you were going to feed them dinner and put them to bed.  You had other ideas. You piled them in the car, drove over to the surf shop, and bought them skater hats to match yours. 

5. It’s kind of cute that I’ve probably only ever heard you call by my real name maybe…oh…3?…4?…times in my life.  

4. Coffee shorts. Enough said.

3. The fact that you don’t mind that I blog about you. And our kids. And our life. All the time.

2. How much you love that I love this blog.

1. How you never actually read this blog.   (Seriously, this fact just cracks me up. I love that about you. And I’m willing to bet that I am going to have to forward you this post via email or else you might be 43 by the time you get around to reading it...)

She asked. I answered.

I (along with two other bloggers who as you will see are way better at this stuff than I) was interviewed by Mrs. Lou Lou recently.

She asked.

I answered.

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy: The Interview

My book is coming out in paperback soon.

McMommy’s Holiday Card Spectacular!

Sometimes every bone in my body tells me to do something…..and I go the COMPLETE opposite way.

Like when my hips arm flab BONES say: “Don’t eat McDonalds again. Don’t eat McDonalds again. One time this week was enough.”

And then I pull through the drive-thru and revel in the hot fudge sundae with nuts, after I polish off the fries and icy cold coke.

So when every bone in my body said “Don’t do the Holiday Card Spectacular. You have soooooo much on your plate right now. You don’t even have time to update McMommywood anymore and this season of the Real Housewives of the OC is the best yet because everyone is broke! And Lynne’s about to get her face whacked off! And OMG the new housewife may look like she has it all but really her husband is a CONTROLLING $%*@ and I would rather put hot sticks in my eyes than be married to that! No really, you have to get serious and focus. On the Biggest Loser finale. DON’T DO THE HOLIDAY CARD SPECTACULAR!”

My immediate response was to create a new blog. For a bigger, better, even more fun McMommy Holiday Card Spectacular.

(Do you all remember this from last year? This is where I feature your holiday cards on my blog.)

I’m pretty sure I need to see a therapist at this point.

Becauseseriouslypeople!!! A whole new blog.

I’m going to fill it with my favorite holiday cards and photos that you email me.

And someone? Is going to win a $50 gift card to Doodlebug Dezigns that is good for an entire year. Just for sending me your card. Think about it--you can order birthday invites, birth announcements..or even..Holiday cards next year! NICE!

If you would like your card to be a part of the McMommy Holiday Card Spectacular, simply email your card to McHoliday@live.com

In the subject line, please put either your family name or the name of your blog. (whichever name you want to be published. Feel free to use a faux name if you want, doesn’t bother me!)

I loooooooooooved seeing all your cards last year! Can’t wait to see what you all have come up with for this year’s cards…email me and I’ll post some of my favorites each day on the McHoliday blog!

{Ok now really. Back to focusing. On the show I love to hate… “Million Dollar Listing”. I’m sure I won’t waste any time checking my inbox every five minutes, waiting for the first card to arrive. No, I wouldn’t do that. Except for maybe just once. Just to see. And then totally back to focusing. I swear.}

Places You Will Not Find Me Today.

1.) Near a Best Buy, Brandsmart, Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Wal-Mart, or Toys R Us.

2.) Near my skinny jeans.
3.) At work.
4.) Near that mountain of laundry in my dryer that needs to be folded and put away.
5.) Near a scale.

Where will you not be today?