Blogger Layouts

Sunday, January 4, 2009

I married up




So I'm on call right now at the hospital and was just trying to find a pic on the world wide web that I could use to spice up this post.
It has been awhile since I posted. 2 ugly BYU losses to be exact. Anyway just sitting here thinking how good my wife is. She is home by herself trying to take care of 3 boys.
Yesterday she went to a baptism and of course our kids were the only ones running around the chapel. During the confirmation, Cordon gets his head stuck in a chair and keeps yelling "my head is stuck!" This isn't much worse than a few months ago at our niece's baptism when Darren started laughing hysterically and yelling "do it again" after she got put under the water.
So today Katie had sharing time, which she stayed up until midnight finishing, and Darren decides to run away. She frantically searches for him and finds him out in the parking lot. Then she is quickly trying to get her stuff ready. I'm sure she did a great job as she always does. Where was I during all of this? Why am I not in any of these stories?...I was at the hospital. Or as Darren calls it "daddy's home". Katie does put up with a lot. I have this insatiable desire to get out of debt as soon as possible. I'm not sure Katie always feels the same excitement for me working so much but she is supportive and keeps things going at home.
She rarely complains, and then only when I didn't tell her I was working again tonight until it actually is tonight. She works hard with the boys. She is very patient with them and very loving towards them. She tries hard to work with them, even though Cordon is a heckuva lot happier when Kung Fu Panda is playing. She makes dinner most every night and it is always a gourmet meal. She keeps the house as clean as possible given the circumstances. And she does it all cheerfully, except maybe when I am working for the 4th night in a row and she has to control the boys at church alone again, and she was up late trying to finish sharing time. Then she understandably gets a little tired.
Oh yes. And lets not forget the creme de la creme when she was pregant last year during our carpet installation and all our worldly belongings were in our living room for a weekend while our accidentally wet carpet dried out. Oh yeah and she had morning sickness, both kids had the stomach flu, I worked 2 12 hour days in a row, getting home about 11 each night and we all got to sleep, eat, and puke on our mattresses that were crammed in the living room. She didn't complain at all.
So here's to you Katie. The 15% tithing I paid all those years, hoping the Lord would see fit to bless me with a beautiful wife did actually pay off. I'll see you in the morning.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

ahhh cute! You guys are totally perfect for each other. :)

Bryson and Kristy said...

Katie it's true! I think you are the very best sister-in-law there could ever be! You are always happy and calm and easy to talk to!! There is so much about you that I still want to know like I can't believe it has taken me this long to find out that you've traveled around the world! Well maybe not around but to a lot of fun places! You are awesome! Thanks for putting up for the loud and crazy Barker clan!

Anonymous said...

Lance did you go tanning before the wedding? YOu look very tan in this picture

Lance said...

No tanning but I did spend a week on the farm before the wedding. I used to actually see the sun.

Cort and Amy said...

Cortney and I are laughing hard right now thinking about Cordon and Darren at those baptisms. Those are classic!