Christmas Time and Jen

There have been several times through this holiday that I thought of things I could blog, but that I am now actually here I really can't remember any.
I have an amazing wife. She really knows how to take care of us. I am sometimes amazed at what she can remember. I am talking about keeping track of schedules, birthdays, etc., not the things that wives are accused of remembering.
She often says that we would not survive without her. Of course she's right. We would struggle. I might be able to do the laundry as long as I could dry everything I wash. She makes sure she attends the children's activities a school and is able to go on a field trip with each of the one of them.
At Christmas time she is also amazing. She tries to make memories each year for all of us to remember, though the kids sometimes aren't sure they want to participate. She loves making toffee every year. Oh, how we love our traditional Christmas breakfast. This year we even got to bake it in our own oven. It was fun to smell it cooking, too.
I am really glad that she likes to go to movies. I believe she converted me to going to the movies. I really didn't go to many movies during my teenage years. Once we were married and could afford to go to the dollar movies we would go to escape our life. It is something that we have kept doing all of our married life. I will admit that I don't mind going to chick flicks (I did find recently that I have my limits; think Mama Mia). I love lifting the arm of the theater chair and snuggling up to her. She even lets me have some of her popcorn. The bad thing about the movies is that I think I have to have a cherry coke in hand regardless if I could drink it or not.
She has sacrifices her bonus checks every Christmas to make our life better. I don't know if she would scrapbook any more if she had the time and money to do it.
I know that if money and time allowed she would love to go through and decorate every room in the house. She would do each room different and love doing it. Then she would probably love doing someone else's house.
I have heard the definition of sacrifice is to give up something good for something better. She has sacrificed those things to be a wife and mom. I hope that the trade was worth it.
Love you Jen,

Old Man