"My Husband is the Best!"

The phrase that seams to always pop up on facebook these days is " My husband is the best!" or "My husband is the most amazing in the world!" and I will not lie it has always kind of bugged me. It always came across to me as they were boasting and having a competition about their husbands, and I don't think that is necessary. But maybe it was just because I was single at the time that I was feeling this way. It wasn't until recently when I got married and fell more and more in love with my husband did I want to say the same thing, but never did for the fact that I didn't feel I needed to tell the whole world how I felt about him. The last couple of days I have been really thinking about this phrase as Andrew has been by my side as I hit a little bit of a rock bottom.

Before I start to explain why I hit rock bottom I want to just say how much I love and adore my job. I work with two amazing kids with autism that I have grown to love as a little brother and sister or niece or nephew. At times my job is the most fun and rewarding job, and others it is one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life. This last month has been a tough one at work. I have felt like a bad tech, because I have struggling to help the little guy I work with and it has been slowly draining me. This last week I had had a very long week, some days working 12 hour shift with only a few hours of sleep. This causing me not only to be tired, but physically and mentally drained. Everything from the past month finally slapped me in the face and I was done. I needed to get away and just leave for a bit. Well that isn't exactly easy when you are recently married, both going to school and poor. So as I was thinking about what I could do I came up with the idea to save and do something fun for spring break. So that is what Andrew and I are going to do. And I can't wait!

So now you know why I was down I can tell you why I had been thinking about this phrase all weekend. Friday night I was laying on the coach and Andrew told me to go take a bath and try and relax so I did. After being in for about five minutes Andrew came in to check on me and we just started talking. It was fantastic! We hadn't talked like that for a bit, and it was what I needed. We talked about life, about school, our future, church, ect. The water started getting cold so I finally got out, got dressed and went and cuddled in bed with Andrew. We read our scriptures, said our prayers, then put a movie on and fell asleep. The next day was our 6 month anniversary. We had a great day planned, dinner, movie, cabelas, and just enjoying each other's company of course. Well that all changed when we realized that we just wanted to stay home and relax. So we did. It was a great day. That evening a read a blog a friend had posted on facebook, which probably wasn't the best idea. It was about a lady who had lost her husband after being married for 7 years, plus many other trials in her life. But that was the part that hit me the most. I just thought to myself what would I do if Andrew lost his life somehow, it made me cry and cry. Now Andrew has this magic talent where he can alwasy tell when I am crying someone. But he came over and was comforting me, but I didn't want to tell him what I was crying about, but eventually did. And I cried some more.

 While I cried it finally hit me, and it hit me hard. I was supposed to be with Andrew, and Andrew with me. He is the "Best husband in the world!" FOR ME! When time comes for someone to get married I hope and pray that they realize this on their own time. For me it took a little longer than what I wish it would have, BUT it came at the time I needed it to come. Heavenly Father brings our spouse to us because they are the BEST for us, along with us for them. Everyones spouse is the best for them, and in my eyes no ones is better than another, but for us our spouse is the best one in the world. I am so grateful for Andrew and the love and compassion he has had for me since day one. He means the world to me, and I fall more and more in love with him everyday!