Sam holding his white elephant gift at Christmas (Photo taken by Nicole S.)
A lot of people talk about their dads on Father’s Day. Well my dad is totally awesome, and I love him a lot, but today I wanted to talk about my husband. We’ve been married for nearly 10 years, and we have two very wonderful little kids.
As a husband, Sam is faithful, committed and loving. He still finds me attractive, and he lets me know it frequently. He is not always great at keeping things clean, but then, neither am I. 
As a dad, he’s doing pretty good. I think he’s still learning, but he’s caring and gives the kids a lot of his attention. He knows how important “being there” really is, and he isn’t about giving the kids stuff or money to replace spending time with them and giving them affection.
Tonight when I asked our 6 year old daughter if she would make something for her daddy for Father’s Day, she spent an hour working on a “puzzle” and made a box for it out of cardstock paper. It was such a sweet gift, and she insisted that “daddy is going to love it!” I’m sure he will.
He’s also really proud of our kids. Whenever one of them does something or says something that surprises him (like our 3-year-old using the word “contraption”) he is amazed and I can see the joy in his face at watching the kids grow up right before his eyes. Sometimes I think we’re both in shock at the fact that we’ve got these kids and no one has told us that there has been some kind of mistake in us being blessed by these two precious little people.
Sometimes I feel like we aren’t doing that well as parents, that we’re making a lot of mistakes, and I sometimes think our kids are going to look back and wonder if they need therapy for all of the things we did to them! But we both love our kids infinitely, and I think that they’re probably going to be ok.
I am always constantly amazed by the fact that our kids almost always give him their fullest attention when he wants to take pictures of them. He loves doing photo shoots with them and we have some of the best pictures of our kids that most people don’t have. And it really does seem like no matter what happens, his pictures of our kids always turn out better than those done at studios like Sears and especially better than school photos!
I’m so glad to have been blessed to have a husband like Sam, and I hope that every Father’s Day and anniversary only gets better!
