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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Some Kinda Wonderful

It has been pointed out by some of you that I give my hubby a pretty hard time on the blog and I didn't want y'all to get the wrong impression. So, I'm going to take a couple of days to tell you about him. Just a little anecdote here and there to show you that even though he is a jock, he is also my Mr. Somekinda Wonderful.

Once upon a time, my best friend and I would go out for coffee most every morning. We'd meet up at Starbucks, order our drinks of choice, settle into the big, cozy arm chairs and solve the world's problems.

We laughed; we cried; we debated; we commiserated. Inevitably, Greg (hubby) would call during our morning ritual and ask what I was doing. He simply could not understand this fascination I had for "going out for coffee," but he slowly began to feel left out and maybe a wee bit threatened.

So one Saturday morning, he walked into the kitchen and said, "You wanna go get some coffee with me?"

Delighted, I answered with an affirmative and off we went.

He took me to the corner gas station.

We went in. He poured himself a tall cup of black from the pot. I got me a coffee at one of their automated frappa-chemical machines. He paid for these lovely beverages and then stood there, looking a bit hesitant and confused, as if he wasn't sure exactly what came next.

Clearly, "going out for coffee" only took, as he had suspected, less than five minutes.

I cocked my head. "Wanna go for a drive?"

"Yeah! Okay. Sure. Let's go for a drive."

So we went for a drive and drank our coffees and solved the world's problems. To this day he hasn't asked me to repeat this adventure, but it warms my heart every time I think about it. He knew it was important to me. And if it was important to me, it was important to him.

I'm tellin' you: He's some kinda wonderful.

(Btw, don't forget we start our book discussion next week!)

posted by Deeanne at 12:23 PM

2 Comments:

Valerie Comer said...: LOL, good story, Deanne!
ValMarie said...: I love this story, Dee. :-) I've got a husband like that too--he's willing to do stuff with me just because it's important to me, even if he doesn't quite understand why I enjoy it so much. I hope he'd say that I do the same for him. :-)