My Fabulous Husband Jeffrey.
January 23, 2008
Written by: Katie
It has come to my attention that some people thought that I purposely omitted the name of a certain someone in this house while posting an entry about my unruly children. Apparently someone felt that it may have been a personal jab to the person whose name I left out.
I just want to say that the only reason I didn’t mention my sweet husband’s name on that other post was because he *wasn’t* sitting in the living room supervising the children in the way I would. But I can’t really blame him because it really was not fun and eh-hem, he does not multi-task very well. I believe it is a male thing because my boys will be reading a book or playing on the computer and the world around them fades away while Jenna and I can read a book, cook breakfast, paint our nails and still hear and correct all that goes on around us. It’s a female thing I’m sure.Â
So lest someone misunderstand what was going on around here, Jeff *was* spending time with the kids while I was hiding in my bedroom with Jodi but he was not hearing and correcting all of the kids…well, there were 11 to keep track of after all…so some behavior was slipping. It’s not his fault. He is male and so we have to make concessions for him.
Anyways, I have compiled a few pictures of Jeffrey and I will attempt to wax eloquent about my true feelings for my fabulous husband. Even though he is better at toning out kids than I am.
This is Jeff several years before I met him. He even graduated high school and that ranks him high in my book. That is his mother on the left and his sister on the right. I won’t comment on my sister in law’s hair, even in jest, because she already dislikes me. Back to the adoration part of this post. Wasn’t Jeff handsome? If I had met him straight out of highschool I woulda snatched him up within the week instead of waiting the 4 months it took when we met in 1994. Nevermind, I was a sophomore. We coulda run off to Georgia and got married. Yee haw!
This was back in 1996 in California. This is what Jeff looked like when we met. Minus the grainy white specks that are present because I was too lazy to Photoshop them out. I was in a hurry to post this you know. He wore his uniform to our first date. Ok, he didn’t really but if he had I woulda snatched him up in 3 days instead of waiting the 4 months we did before we got married. A high school diploma AND he wears a uniform? Who could resist? This is before we started taking teen foster girls on probation that is why he is still smiling. I kid. We loved those girls. Even when they were found with boys in the girls bathroom or in the bush doing drugs or when they were brought home by the police for the 3rd time that week. We loved those girls alrighty. But back to the affection for Jeff.
This is Jeff today. Well, 2 weeks ago. But he looks pretty similar today. And let me tell you he is looking pretty yummy. He is far better looking and more fun to be around then he ever thought of being when he was 18 or 23. He is now 34 and that is really old. I mean, like way older than 33. He’s practically geriatric. In this picture he is giving me that look. That is the look that says “What are you doing?” Right after this is the scowling tsk tsk look that says he thinks I’m crazy. That tsk tsk looks make me giggle *and* because I know that this “What are you doing?” look proceeds the tsk tsk look it makes me giggle as well. But the truth is if he had looked this good when we met I woulda snatched him up in 4.5 seconds instead of waiting the 4 months it took way back in 1994.
Now you know.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:55 am
How sweet! I like Jeff with hair. :-)
Did you ever have ‘mall hair’? giggle
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 am
I will take a stab at a comment….very well put. I can’t imagine anyone thinking you were putting him down. Nicely put though….There is after all evidence that you like him….eh hem…just ask Jodi. :)
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
My goodness, that first picture looks like a kid I went to school with. LOL
So sweet to read about how much you love Jeff. More of that love your husband stuff needs to be blogged about in this world instead of the negative stuff I always read and hear about in other places.
Keep doing good.
Shell
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:13 am
I think it’s funny that someone thought you were taking a jab at your hubby. I would think it was obvious that men just don’t hear anything if they are occupied with a task. Most really destructive disasters happen on my husband’s watch. And that’s okay. God just equipped us differently. I think my kids just lay in wait for mom to walk out the door. They hold conferences about what they can do when it’s dad’s watch again. :)
Your sweet words about your husband are better than any silly limerick anyway. ;)
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
True–True about our wonderful spouses, that can concentrate on 1 thing at a time, AND block out the extra noise!!! Things that I WISH I could do, even if for one day…
FUNNY post on all of Jeff’s wonderful qualities!! As well as your history together!!!
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:25 am
Very sweet. I wouldn’t go so far as saying that he looks better with 80s hair (re: Dana’s comment), but I will say that his 80s hair looked better than his sister’s. LOL What were we all thinking back then with our big hair?? Katie, let’s see some pics of you with funky hair!
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:34 am
I like Dad’s hair.
I don’t think Mom has ever had funky hair. And I know because I have seen pictures! Oh wait, there was that one picture…
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 am
That was in 1991. Now what was the excuse for the hair? I never owned a bottle of Aquanet. Sorry.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:51 am
What sweet comments about your husband. There are not enough comments out there about how wonderful having a loving spouse can be. I mean, my dear husband went to the grocery store last night for me while I was putting our last child to bed for the night, which gave me a chance to rest a bit. Which I needed. And then what does he bring home with him that was not even _ON_ the list??
Doughnuts…yummy doughnuts for a hungry, tired, pregnant wife in her first trimester. Good men can be hard to find and should be appreciated when they are found! Lucky us!
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
Jenna, I think your sweet Mama is hiding pictures from you. And worse, from her adoring fans. Tsk, tsk.
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Hey Katie.. have you ever seen a resemblance to Kurt Russell in Jeff??? I am seeing one in each of these pictures! Those are sweet things you said about him… I am sure it made him feel all gushy gushy inside :)
Let’s not talk about bad hair… oh my at the pictures I could bring out! ACK! :)
Love,
Chas
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Chas…I was thinking the same thing about Jeff reminding me of Kurt Russell. And I think that I lived through 2 of the worst hair decades…the 70s hair past my backside and parted in the middle…and the 80s perm and spritz-and-it-doesn’t-move-in-a-snowstorm. No one is going to see those.
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Nice to see you folks soooo in love! And you don’t have to make 34 sound so old for little old me who just hit 36!! And I only have two kiddos (on earth at least!) You are really cracking to have so many at only 33!! Wow! Geriatric indeed - hhmmffff!!
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I think that hiding pictures from your daughter is worse than hiding them from your adoring fans. Besides, she is only hiding them from you (if she is hiding them)… she has shown them to me. :-)
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
What’s wrong with an “80s perm? I had one.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Nothing at all is wrong with an 80s perm, Jeff. In fact, you should talk Katie into getting one again. We’d all have plenty to talk about then.
Wait, wait, wait. Better idea. Grow your hair back out and get one yourself. That will light up your blog.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Hmmm…. Mom, you need to post that picture of Dad in his perm so everyone can see how silly he looked and will stop trying convincing him to get one again.
Really, he looked very silly.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Ewwww, guys and perms, yuck! Mark had one too. No one will ever see those pictures. We have to hold on to some dignity.
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
33 and 34? Are you serious? Not that you look older - you really dont’ !!! - it’s that you’re, well, so grown up and responsible! Man, it makes me feel like I have a loooong way to go in a few short years.
Great job on the Ode to Jeff.