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| Hubby and I before the Night Owl Race in September 2014 |
I have ladies that ask me how I 'trained' him to do all that. I laugh and tell them I didn't. I explain the trick to marry a guy later in life, when he's been on his own long enough to develop all those skills. My Hubby and I were both in our thirties when we met. He had never been married before so he had been on his own since he was in his early 20's.
When it comes to housework and such, my husband is (or used to be, he's not as bad as he was when we first got together) a bit a neat freak. Me, I'm the kind of person that picks up when it starts to feel messy and cleans when I know company is coming. That goes for laundry. I wait until I am down to my last pair of clean socks or last clean shirt, then I do the laundry. Hubby has set days he does laundry, regardless of how much or how little there is to do. It was quit the adjustment when we moved into together. He pretty much took over the laundry and I learned to pick up and clean a bit more often. When he asks me to help with something, I gladly do it, because I know how lucky I am to have a guy that does all that.
Cooking... well, that is something we were both equally good at. The deal, when I moved in, was I would pay for groceries, cook, and we would do the dishes together. This worked fine for awhile. Until Hubby realized that when I find a recipe I like, I tended to cook it... a lot. So basically I had the same 10 to 12 recipes that I rotated through, with an occasional new one thrown in. After several months of this, Hubby asked if he could try some recipes out of my collection of Weight Watcher cookbooks. I told him to go for it. It wasn't long before he was doing all that cooking and all I had to do was buy the groceries and do the dishes (though I do accuse him of dirtying every dish in the house just so I have to wash them!).
I have yet to figure out if my husband truly enjoys cooking or likes the challenge of trying a new recipe nearly every night. Either way, I don't have to cook and I get awesome meals! Well worth the price of washing a sink full of dishes.
When we started to eat clean, we began buying organic. Which is a bit more expensive than the normal foods we were buying, so he began to help the grocery costs. I began to help more in the kitchen by cutting up veggies and helping with other prep work for meals. I enjoy helping, it gives us a chance to work together, talk, grumble or vent about our day, or just work in cozy silence.
Our kitchen time has increased a lot over the last few months because of doing the Practical Paleo Fat Loss Plan and now the 21 Day Sugar Detox.
And it's for this reason I want to publicly thank my husband for all the planning, prep work, and cooking he has done... especially for the detox. It is a lot of work and I've helped as much as I can, but he still took on a lot of the prep work to make sure we had everything we needed for the various meal. I know he is looking forward to Day 22, probably as much as I am! He want to start using the new Paleo cookbooks he has accumulated in the last month and he wants to see if he "Paleo-ize" some of our favorite Weight Watcher recipes.
Not only has he supported, encouraged, motivated, and pushed me through this detox, he has always supported my weight loss efforts. He even joined Weight Watchers at one point to help get me back on track. He sat through meetings where he was the only guy in the room, and he did that for me. He encouraged me to get into shape by walking, helped me with my running (even when he didn't honestly believe I would continue!), and continues to keep me motivated by running various half marathons (and any other race I find) with me.
He is my husband and my best friend, and I am blessed. So, for you, Hon, I say thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I couldn't have gotten the weight off and kept it off without your love and support. Love you.... forever... and ever... and ever... and ever...
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