10 Jazzy Things

Let's pretend that it's still February 14th, one of my favorite days of the year.  Let's pretend that I had time to write this post yesterday, on the day of our anniversary, when we celebrated 13 fabulous wonderful amazing years together. 

10 things that I love about my Jazz, today:

1. I love that he always gets me awesome flowers on our anniversary.  This year's flowers were especially beautiful: 12 roses and one other great big beautiful flower whose name I don't know (who can tell me?), and one other bud of the same kind.  Jazz didn't want to get me 13 roses, he said, because that might be bad luck, ha ha ha ; ).

2. I love that he loves to take me to restaurants on very special occasions.  I love eating out, it's my favorite.

3. I love that he cooks at home when he can--especially on Sundays, and on days when he can see that I'm just not up to it.  How many other husbands can cook better than their wives?  I'm glad I got one of those kinds of husbands.

4. I love that he is so handsome.  It's so silly when he makes "aren't I handsome" faces in the mirror when he shaves and gets dressed up, but I love it.  I'm attracted to him, even so much more than when I first knew him (even in his words, he gets better with age), and mostly so when I see him being such a smarty pants, teaching a class, giving a lecture, or talking about smart stuff that is over my head.  I love how I love to look at him.

5. I love how he smells.  When we kiss, I love to breathe deep and take him in.  In church on Sunday I leaned over and smelled his clean white shirt, and he asked "does my breath stink?"  But I laughed and confessed that I was just trying to catch a whiff of him (because it makes me happy).  He thought that was weird, but I thought it was funny.

6. I love that he has days that he can work from home sometimes.  And when he doesn't, I love it when he comes home from work.  His face in the doorway (coming in) is one of my favorite things to see every day.

7. I love that he's going to the parenting classes with me that are sponsored by the university here, as we're part of a test group for our preschooler.  I love the little efforts and the big things that he does to improve himself as a parent.  He is an awesome dad.

8. I love his taste in music.  I love that even when we don't have music playing in our home (a lot of Stevie Wonder lately, which he's researching--love it!), he's got music on the brain.  Can you believe he even analyzes our church hymns out loud for me during the prelude music?  He can't listen to music without taking it apart, and knowing what it's all about.  I love it.  He's such a smarty pants.

9. I love that people besides me love him so much.  It's no wonder he got this new job at the college where he'll be working this fall--the new faculty fell in love with him right away and could tell that their students will too.  He just fits.  He's a people person, and he knows how to treat others with respect, and humor, and he carries himself with dignity. 

10. I love that he has more gray hair than me, even though he's younger, ha ha! 

Thanks for all of our wonderful amazing years together, Jazz!  I love you!