If You Give Your Husband a Kiss....

I fell in love with Leah Heffners "If you give your husband a kiss" article and I wanted to put my own spin on it for this time in my life. My hubby works long hours, we live on a hobby farm, own a home business, home school three kids, have a special needs son, and try to keep up with everything else that makes up this life we live.... but I still love kissing my hubby and nestling my head under his chin....

So here is my version...

If you give your husband a kiss, he’ll probably want a hug to go with it.

You’ll nestle your head under his chin, and just breathe him in.

The smell will remind you of when you first started dating and you didn’t want to be anywhere else but nestled under his chin.

You’ll think back on some of your favorite first dates – ice cream, long walks, holding hands, and late night talks.

Before you can get too carried away, a child (or dog) will probably interrupt you, breaking apart your hug.

You’ll open your eyes to see dishes that need cleaned up, kids waiting for your attention, and the million other tiny and enormous things you do every day.

You’ll see homework that needs finished, the floor needing swept, the bills to mail, and beds that need made.

You’ll see marks on the walls and mountain of laundry and the inch thick dust bunnies.

You might be so overwhelmed, you won’t know where to start.

You’ll see all the ways your life is different now than it was when it was late-night dates and ice cream runs.

So you’ll take a deep breath, whisper a prayer, take a drink of tea, and just start on something.

You’ll get so caught up in what’s going on around you, you’ll miss talking to your husband before he goes out the door.

You’ll start to tell him you love him, when you notice someone spilled water on the floor.

After you mop up the floor, you’ll wash your hands, and notice your wedding ring.
Your wedding ring will remind you of your wedding, and the man that you married.

You’ll think again of all the ways life is different now than it was when he slipped that ring on your finger.

And then you’ll think of all the ways it’s still the same, just like when you nestled your head under his chin.

You’ll hear the door to the garage shut and realize your husband’s off to complete his tasks for the day.

You’ll realize you don’t want to miss giving him one more hug before he gets too busy.

So you’ll run outside, barefoot, looking like a hot mess.

He’ll smile because he thinks you’re beautiful, and you’ll still not understand how much he means it.

You’ll probably smile back, trying to pick one out of a million things you could say.

Instead, you’ll decide to give him a hug.

And chances are, if you give you’re husband a hug, YOU’LL want a kiss to go with it.

 NOTE: You can read the original article at Life Around the Coffee Cup.