{"id":9791,"date":"2015-06-06T15:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=9791"},"modified":"2015-06-06T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T19:22:02","slug":"romantic-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=9791","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not to be outdone a dancing bear “bearing” flowers<\/a>, when I arrived home from work on Friday, late and kinda tired because I was “acting boss” and had a number of things come up unexpectedly, my spouse pulled a surprise…
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\n…he greeted me at the door wearing a leather apron and a pair of boots (though he was fully clothed; don’t get any ideas.)<\/p>\n

He gave me a hug and a kiss, then handed me a hand-written card on which he wrote a personal sentiment that made me tear up. It ended with…<\/p>\n

and for all these reasons, these are how much I love how you love me….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was ready to bawl like a baby, but he wasn’t through.<\/p>\n

He led me to our seldom-used formal dining room and showed me that he had set a beautiful table, just for us. My Mom’s hand-sewn table cloth, our good silver, my family heirloom china… the works. <\/p>\n

He sat me down, pulled my boots off, and gave me a t-shirt and shorts to wear, which was very comforting as well as comfortable. He fixed me a drink (ginger ale over ice), handed me the newspaper, and asked me to read and relax while he prepared dinner.<\/p>\n

What? Spouse cook? He never cooks.<\/p>\n

Well, on Friday, he did.<\/p>\n

Spouse grilled two steaks on the barbeque, and had heated up side dishes of potatoes and green beans … leftovers from all the donated meals my sr. pals gave me when I was laid up with my back problems.<\/p>\n

He served the meal in our dining room, held my hand while he said a prayer of thanksgiving, then we ate.<\/p>\n

We smiled, laughed, shared love, and lingered over a casual, simple, but enjoyable meal. Just the two of us. No fuss, no mess, no pain. Just love.<\/p>\n

Life is short: show those you love how you love them. Each and every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not to be outdone a dancing bear “bearing” flowers, when I arrived home from work on Friday, late and kinda tired because I was “acting boss” and had a number of things come up unexpectedly, my spouse pulled a surprise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life","category-partners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}