Love List

I am a list maker.

I make lists for what needs to be done, what groceries I need, what projects I'm working on, what my goals are, what dreams I aspire to. Lists are swirling through my head most nights when I'm trying hard to fall asleep. So pretty much everything in my life gets a list.

In honor of Valentine's Day I created a love list.

I hope my little list inspires you to make a list of why your significant other is perfect for you. If you are single, make a list of what is special about you (it should be a long list) and what you want to find in someone else (it should be a shorter list). I think we can't do it, until we dream it (excuse the pun there), so you can't find what you're looking for, until you know what you're looking for. You also can't appreciate what you have, until you count your blessings.

Here are just a few of the reasons why my husband is my valentine:

• He is an amazing father to our girls. We are talking a Taylor Swift singing, princess tea party having kind of dad.
• He works hard to provide for us so that I can choose to be home with our kids.
• He tells me I'm beautiful every day.
• He is an excellent dishwasher loader/unloader, incredible cook, and listens to me when I talk. Really listens.
• He understands all of me: my dreams, my faults, my fears.
• He opens the door for me. Always.
• He respects me and has supported me through career changes, loss of family members, personal struggles and on and on.
• He believes deeply in God and shows kindness to others.
• He makes me laugh with a sarcastic, witty humor that never fails to make me smile.
• He's brilliant.
• He made me a mother and together we made 3 people who are the best parts of us.

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made."
--Robert Browning