I have now known you over half of your life. I've had a front row seat to the last twenty years of your life. In many ways, you are still the same person I met in the Cornerstone Church parking lot over 20 years ago and in many others ways you are a different person. All the things I liked best about you back then are still alive and kicking and a whole bunch of new things I now like about you have come to life since that day. It is crazy to think that I was introduced to you as a teenager, married you in your twenties, raised children with you in your thirties, and are now getting ready to begin launching children out into the world with you in your forties. I've seen you in four separate decades of your life. You are my favorite show. I love all the old episodes and I look forward to the new ones that come out each day. I like being subscribed to you.
I am proud of you. You get so much done on a daily basis. A normal day for you includes meal prep, laundry, and cleaning up after twelve people. Most days you are also teaching kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. I like knowing that my children are being raised and taught by you. You are so smart and so good at asking good questions and counseling people through things. You are a teacher, a counselor, a friend, a mentor, and a coach to our kids. One of my favorite things is hearing you teach our kids through the walls as I work from our bedroom. I love knowing that they have access to you and that when they have questions and concerns that you are the one they ask. It is like having a living, breathing, God-fearing search engine in my living room that my kids get to use. What a blessing.
I like that my friends know that you are my wife. You truly are a crown and you bring me honor in the way you conduct yourself. You are beautiful and smart and funny. You ask good questions and provide good answers. You make me look good by how good you look in wisdom, stature, and favor with others. Thank you!
You are a good wife and a good mom. You take care of our home and you take care of us. You always have the things we need in stock and you always have something ready to make for us when we need it. You make our home beautiful and functional. We get things done and we get to enjoy the view as we do them. You wash our laundry and fold it. You clean our walls and sanitize our surfaces. You treat our wounds and care for our aches and pains. We have what we need and more because you take care to stock them up for us. You look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of eleven other people.
I will say it again, I am proud of you. You are doing a really good job. I am honored to be your husband and grateful that you are my kids mom. I love you and I like you and I always will.
Happy Birthday, Paige!
To mom!
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