Husband and Marriage Archives - Page 3 of 4

I Miss My Man!

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Hannah Davis

I miss my husband. While he is away, I’ve been noticing all the funny stuff he does. He is always messing with stuff around the house. Yesterday I found a safety pin clipped around one of my hair ties. Who takes time to do something like that? The other day he stacked all the shampoo and conditioner bottles on top of each other in the shower. When I asked him why he had done it, he said so that I would ask him why he did it. He also uses the most random dishes we own. I have two juice glasses that don’t match anything else and I store them in the back of the cupboard, behind everything else. But when Christopher wants juice, those are the glasses he pulls out! Or when he comes home from the gym, he takes off his socks and puts them on the foot board of our bed… I still have no idea why. It’s funny, too, that we’ve lived in the same house for a year and a half and he still doesn’t know where the Tupperware goes (and he’s never known in any of our other houses either). He leaves little trails whenever he comes home. You can find where he has been by following the keys, the cell phone the water bottle, the mail, the laptop, and whatever else he’s brought with him. Problem is, he can never find where he’s left all these items!

He reminds me of the Gershwin song They Can’t Take That Away from Me:

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea…
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no, they can’t take that away from me.

I’m so glad he comes home tomorrow afternoon!

While Chris is away at the youth conference, Isaiah and I have been babysitting a turtle! Our pastors are out of town and their boys are with Chris at the conference, so we have their pet turtle in a terrarium on our kitchen table. Isaiah is fascinated with it. The first thing he does each morning is run into the kitchen asking, “Where tu’tle?” It sleeps a lot and this bugs Isaiah because it hides under leaves and he can’t see it. He goes up by the turtle and says, “Wha’s wrong, Tu’tle?” I tell him the turtle is sleeping, but he doesn’t like that answer very well. He wants the turtle to do cool stuff so he can watch.

Chester, on the other hand, is afraid of the turtle. Our dog is such a city-slicker! When the turtle is awake, it walks around its container and its shell bumps on the glass. Chester hears the knocking sound and freaks out (he starts barking when our ice machine drops cubes into the bucket, so you can only imagine what this does to him). I tried to get him to jump up on my lap so he could look in the turtle’s terrarium, but he refused. I had to grab him and hold him to show him the turtle, but the whole time he was tense and as soon as I let him go, he jumped down. Then he stood on the floor at a “safe distance,” glaring at the turtle (it was moving around, so he could see it), and barked with all his might. He’s such a drama queen!

Please follow and like us:

I’m So Huge!

Posted on July 12, 2006 by Hannah Davis

Here’s my latest belly picture! I’m so big already, that Chris thinks we’re going to have a big baby. I think it has a lot more to do with me craving doughnuts. Plus I haven’t really been wearing maternity shirts yet, so regular shirts show off my belly almost too well

. The scary part is that I’m only going to get bigger. I still have almost 3 months to go.

Chris got back last Saturday night. What a relief. For one, I missed him like crazy! Plus, it’s really hard taking care of a 2 1/2 year old all by yourself for a whole week. Chris’ brother had flown out to go to the Dream Center with them, so after everyone got back, we took him to San Francisco on Monday. We got a bit of a late start, so we only got to spend a couple hours shopping, but we found some cool stuff.

They came and sprayed for our cockroaches yesterday. I had to clean out all my cupboards beforehand. You don’t realize how much stuff you have until you have to do something like that. We had to leave the house for 3 hours. When we came back, there were dead cockroaches all around the fridge! The unfortunate thing is that this probably won’t take care of the problem completely. We put out a bunch of “roach motels” to catch the ones that escaped the extermination. But we’ve still seen some live ones that were displaced by the whole ordeal. It’s so disgusting!

We started registering for Leah at Target yesterday. It’s hard to know what I really want. With babies, it seems the things you register for are the things you never use (i.e. newborn socks). I did find a really cute diaper bag that I love. The other thing that I want the most are some bumper pads, but they are only available at Target online and they are currently out of stock, plus they aren’t cheap… so I may have to find different bumper pads that would work. Except that these are perfect! Oh well, when she gets me up at 3 AM, I’m sure I won’t care what her bumper pads look like.

We keep working on prepping Isaiah for his new baby sister. He says Leah, “E-uh” or “We-uh” which is very cute. I was telling Isaiah again that the baby was in my belly. He asked, “Is i’ cwying?” He’s asked about the baby crying a few times before, so somewhere he’s gotten the idea that that is what babies do. We got him a baby doll to promote “baby awareness” in preparation for our new arrival. The other day he was carrying it around by the legs and pointing to its diaper area and telling me it was dirty. So, yes, our son is getting ready for a new baby in the house!

Now if we could just figure out how to get him to potty train. We bought Thomas underpants yesterday, hoping to use them as an incentive! It would be so nice to get the process started before the baby gets here… but I don’t have high hopes.

Please follow and like us:

Lonely… Except for the Roaches

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Hannah Davis

This week Chris took some of our youth to LA for their missions trip to the Dream Center. This is the longest we’ve ever been apart… a whole week! It’s not much fun. We can’t talk much because they’re so busy, so I really miss him.

Isaiah doesn’t seem sad, but you can tell he realizes Chris is gone. He misses Chris’ authority. He’s doing the craziest stuff around the house and has an attitude a lot. He unzipped the throw pillows and pulled a bunch of stuffing out. He spit chocolate on my sheets (I don’t think it was on purpose). He climbed up on his dresser and managed to knock his stereo off on the floor. Weird stuff! It’s like he’s protesting. But it’s wearing me out, because I’m constantly having to correct him.

On the 4th, our Pastor and his wife had us over for their family BBQ. It was nice to talk to adults again! Pastor and his son had a bunch of legal fireworks that they set off once it got dark. Isaiah loved them! The loud ones startled him, so I kept my hands over his ears. When they were really loud and bright, he’d pull the blanket he was wrapped in, up around his nose. We’d ask him if he liked the fireworks and he’d say, “Yeah, I yike it.” He had a lot of fun!

I think we have cockroaches! I thought our area was too cold for them, but a couple of weeks ago, Chris found a huge roach over at the church. I’ve noticed these little bugs off and on and I thought it was weird, because they always spray for bugs at our house. I just figured it was a couple random things that got in. Then, the other night my phone woke me up at 2:30 AM wanting to be charged. When I got up, I turned the light on in the kitchen and their were a bunch of bugs crawling around. They were brown and about as big as a couple of grains of rice put together. I’ve only ever seen big cockroaches, so I called Chris the next morning and asked how small cockroaches started out as. He said, “really small,” so that must be what they are.

The church is having our pest people come out and spray special, which will be a big ordeal, because I have to take everything out of the cupboards and we have to leave the house for 2-4 hours. But at least it will be taken care of. I told Pastor how the neighbors that live between the church and the parsonage stack up their garbage for a couple months and then pile it all into a pickup and take it to the dump. He said that’s where the roaches would come from (and the rat we saw and the mice we had!). He’s going to have his secretary call the health department and complain, because I don’t want to have to be the mean one. I love living in the parsonage, because they take good care of us!

Please follow and like us:

Ode To Christopher

Posted on June 19, 2006 by Hannah Davis

My husband is such a good daddy! You should see when he comes home from work! Isaiah and Chester both come running and jump all over him, like it’s the event of the day. He takes Isaiah places, just the two of them, like the playground and birthday parties. Chris is always is available for Isaiah to call him at work when he is having a hard time. He helps with taking care of Isaiah: everything from changing diapers, to brushing teeth, to reading stories, to chasing him when he’s trying to escape. And best of all, Chris lives his life as an example to our son of what it means to follow hard after Jesus and walk in integrity.

Happy Father’s Day!

Last night I started singing and Isaiah called out to me, “Are you OK?” Granted, I was singing in a funny voice, but still how sad is that? My dreams of a career in opera are dashed!

Please follow and like us:

Vacation Is Coming!

Posted on June 2, 2006 by Hannah Davis

On Monday our family leaves for vacation in Arkansas! We are excited to see Chris’ family again and also get a little rest. I’m not so excited about the fact that it’s in the 90’s in Arkansas right now. I’m spoiled by my year round median temperature of 68 degrees here. In fact, if you go 30 minutes north or south of where we live, it gets 10 to 20 degrees hotter and I start to melt! So I don’t know what I’m going to do with temperatures in the 90’s. Stay near the air conditioner, I guess!

I’ve been madly cleaning and doing laundry in preparation for our trip. You know you don’t clean enough, when your dog follows you around while you dust, looking at you like you’ve lost your mind. It’s very eye-opening, when you see yourself through the eyes of your children and pets.

I went to the doctor today and everything looks good. No exciting news, but my next appointment isn’t until the end of June and that’s the one where we’ll schedule my ultrasound. Chris is already busting at the seams to find out what the baby is, so I’m not sure he can wait that long.

Isaiah and Chester have been playing outside almost nonstop these past couple weeks. Isaiah will say to Chester, “Com’on. Lets g’ outside!” Sometimes Isaiah isn’t a good influence on Chester. I’ve caught him helping Chester dig holes in the backyard.

One day Isaiah found a loose board in the fence. He pulled it back so he could look into the neighbors yard and of course Chester was over there in an instant. When I found them, Isaiah was peering through the fence saying in the calmest little voice, “Decher… Decher…” Of course I freaked out and had to ask the neighbors if I could come into their backyard and get my runaway animal, which I found embarrassing.

We blocked up the loose board and everything was fine for a week, until Isaiah decided he wanted to unblock it to check out what the neighbors were up to. We had a repeat of the above story, but this time Chris took more permanent measures with the fence. He got out his drill and screws to fasten the board down. Isaiah handed him a handful of screws and said, “I help!” So his cuteness got him out of trouble again. I can’t say the same for the dog.

I have the sweetest husband. I don’t talk about him in my blog as much as some members of my family, but it’s only because he doesn’t talk in adorable baby talk (if he did, we’d be worried) or have hilarious antics on a daily basis. But he really is the most amazing person in my life! He is my best friend and I couldn’t live with out him. And last night he gave me the sweetest compliment! I can’t tell you because it’s our secret, but he totally made my night. And that’s why I have the sweetest husband!

Please follow and like us:

Love and Marriage

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Hannah Davis

A couple weeks ago, I went to pour Chris and I a cup of coffee. I went

to the cupboard and got down two sippy cups, and went to the dishwasher and got out 2 clean sippy cup lids. I set the cups in front of the coffee maker and started to grab the coffee pot before I realized that I was about to pour our coffee in sippy cups, not mugs. I told Chris I thought I needed a break :).

So last week I got my break. I flew to Virginia for five days. My roommate from BRSM, Charity Newcomb, got married last Saturday and I had the privilege of standing up in her wedding! It was great to see Charity again and spend time with her, running errands and helping her get ready for her big day! Charity looked beautiful in her wedding dress. Her new husband is really sweet and they are so happy together! I’ve included a picture of them from the rehearsal dinner. All the details came together and everything was so beautiful.

I also got to see a lot of other friends from BRSM! We all had such a great time catching up, reminiscing about school, and sharing girl talk. Leah McMasters, Nicole Mcarthy (not sure if I spelled their names right and they are married now, with new last names), Jenny Maynard and Ginny Ralls (I think that’s her last name?) were all there! It was so good to see them again.

I also got to see Anthony and Rachel Hammond (she used to be Rachel Jernigan)! Rachel drove me to the airport when I left, so we had about three hours to catch up. We also had a little adventure together. We were using MapQuest directions, but somehow it didn’t seem right. We stopped at a truck stop and a guy gave us totally different directions. So it was a little nerve racking, but we made it and had some fun in the process.

Now I’m back with my boys. I missed them all a lot! Isaiah talked on the phone with me while I was gone and that was really sweet. I missed Chris so much, especially with all the love that was in the air at the wedding. It’s fun to travel, but there is nothing like being at home with my family!

Please follow and like us:

Growing Up and Getting Cool

Posted on January 3, 2006 by Hannah Davis

Isaiah is become entirely too independent. Tonight he opened up the fridge, grabbed an apple and started eating it. Later, we were happily watching Mary Poppins and he decided he wanted to watch Finding Nemo instead. When Chris and I didn’t move fast enough, he took matters into his own hands. He pulled Finding Nemo out of its case, opened the DVD drawer, took out the Mary Poppins DVD, put in the new DVD and shut the drawer. Our son, who is not even 2, can work the DVD player. That’s crazy!

Chris recently got new glasses. They are very cool. I say he looks like Clark Kent… I always knew he was my “super man” .

Please follow and like us:

Happy New Year

Posted on January 1, 2006 by Hannah Davis

Happy New Year to all of you. I pray you will resolve to passionately seek after Jesus in 2006!

Chris and I had a quiet New Year’s Eve… once the kids were in bed, that is. Isaiah had stayed up until about midnight at church the night before and he was very whiney all Saturday. Add this to the fact that he has, in general, decided that the best way to express his displeasure is by screaming. And when Isaiah gets all wild, Chester starts acting up too.

Finally we got them both to sleep and had some time to ourselves. Our big splurge for New Years? Fast food! Chris went and got us a full-blown Wendy’s meal, which we haven’t done in forever! It was good, but I’d feel disgusting doing that very often. On New Year’s Eve, some people go drinking… we eat fast food.

We also watched a movie and played “Trivial Pursuit: The 90’s.” You’d think it would be easy to remember things that only happened in the last 15 years, but it’s not. We kissed at the stroke of midnight and then went to sleep. Doesn’t sound too exciting (except the kissing part ), but it was just nice to be home and not have to do anything!

You may remember that Chris has been getting teased because he hit a deer. The main perpetrator of the jokes has been our Pastor. Last night Pastor was driving and he hit a HORSE! The horse was fine. It had actually ran into the side of his car and put a big hole in the vehicle and then got up and walked away. It’ll make for some fun jokes… turn about is fair play.

We went to my favorite Taqueria for lunch today. Isaiah got a little cheese quesadilla. We cut it up for him and he would poke each piece with his fork, dip it in green salsa and then pop it in his mouth. He is getting too big! He copies a lot of words when we say them. Chris told him today that we were going home and Isaiah said “ome?” He says goodnight (“nigh”) now when he is going to bed. He is also learning to identify more body parts. He says mouth (“mouw”) and likes to point out where Chester’s mouth is.

Today it is exceptionally windy. I’ve never seen it like this in CA before. The wind is howling and making moaning sounds around the doors and windows. It is totally freaking the dog out. Chester keeps jumping up and barking because he thinks someone is at the door. He’s driving us crazy and we have to repeatedly open the front door to show him no one is there.

Please follow and like us:

Tacos

Posted on November 13, 2005 by Hannah Davis

When we were in Mexico with our youth this summer, the missionary took us to the most amazing taco stand. Our whole team is still talking about those tacos. We got a “hot tip” that a taqueria here in Salinas made tacos very similar to those in Mexico. We tried the place out last night and it was all true. The tacos were almost exactly the same and so good. It could become very addictive.

Now, if you are saying a taco is a taco, you are wrong. These tacos are made from shredded pork, chicken, or beef. They have fresh cilantro and onion on top with some salsa. And they come on two little tortillas, about half the size of regular tortillas. I’m sure there are lots of other little details that make them good, but those are the main points. Y’all will just have to come to Salinas and try them sometime.

I have a confession. I bet on a card game. I hope that isn’t a “mortal sin” . Before anyone panics, let me explain. Chris and I bought a game of Skip-Bo when we first got married. I had never played so it took me a few months to really get the hang of it (I’m a slow learner). So Chris used to always win. All of sudden I started to win and nothing could stop me. My poor husband wins probably 1 out of 10 games. So he doesn’t really like to play Skip-Bo anymore. Last night, against his better judgment, he pulled out the Skip-Bo cards. I won the first game and he won the second. Of course we had to play a tie breaker. I was teasing him and saying I was going to win. Somehow or other, we ended up betting a whole day of diaper changes for whoever lost. I wanted to back out, because a whole day of diaper changes was too great a price. But no! Chris insisted we stick to the bet. When all was said and done, guess who won? Me! I’m sure glad we stuck to that bet… I’ve got a day of leisure coming to me .

Please follow and like us:

Grocery Shopping is Scary

Posted on October 3, 2005 by Hannah Davis

My husband is in Wisconsin, working on our house there. It’s very lonely around here without him. I’ve had enough “me time” to last a while. It’s only been two days, but I’ve pretty much exhausted all the things I want to do. And all the things I should do, I don’t feel like doing. Who wants to clean the house when you are the only adult who will see it? I really miss my Baby! It hasn’t been all bad, though. I’ve watched a lot of chick-flics .

I’m a sucker for any storyline that is an adaptation of Jane Austin’s marvelous Pride and Prejudice. I even watched the one by the Mormon’s (Yes, you read that right –it was a modern day version where all the character’s were… Mormons. Very weird concept, but at least it was clean thanks to Mormon “morality.”) So with Chris away, I had to see Bride and Prejudice. I was a little skeptical before hand, but it was surprisingly fun. The Bennet family is a modern day Indian family (with Indian names of course), Bingly is a British Indian, Whickam is British, and Darcy is… an AMERICAN! I know it sounds like something that would make Jane Austin roll over in her grave, but it actually worked.

Setting the story of Pride and Prejudice in modern times normally falls a little flat (even when the Mormons do it ) mainly because our modern culture doesn’t comprehend the formality of life, the fixation with getting married or the class system that existed in Jane Austin’s world. However, these concepts fit more naturally into the Indian culture, which apparently still practices arranged marriages at times. The movie did an excellent job of capturing the heart of Jane Austin’s story, making just the right changes, so that it did not feel as if they were pounding a round storyline into a square movie.

I haven’t just watched movies. I also went grocery shopping with Isaiah today. Normally I don’t go grocery shopping on Sundays (in a skirt), and I found out why. I stopped by my favorite little store to grab a few things. I’ve gone at a lot of different times and there has never more than 10 people in the store at a time. But today it was crawling with people… weird people.

When I first entered the store, one of the workers greeted me. Then he said, “Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?” I know in theory that is a pick-up line, so whenever someone says it to me, my first reaction is, “Weirdo alert! Run for your life!” But sometimes people actually use these words while asking an honest question, and since the guy was working, I figured that was all it was. So I answered him:

Me: Well, I shop here a lot.
Guy: No… no… Ahhh! You look like a girl who used to work here.
Me: No, I never worked here (Thinking: Give up, already!)
Guy: No, I know that. You just look like her. Her name was Megan! Do you know a Megan?
Me: No, I don’t. (trying to be nice)
Guy: When you first walked in I thought, that’s Megan. She looked like you. She was slim like you. (Makes gesture in the air like he’s drawing a figure)

I said some more non-committal things, assuring him I knew no Megans and tried to delicately get away. He reluctantly dropped the subject. My slimness made me look like “Megan”? Whatever. As if that hadn’t been weird enough, I was grabbing my milk out of the cooler and guess who was working behind the milk? He said, “Oh! It’s you again!” I said, “Yes, it is.” and shut the door. Some people don’t give up while they’re ahead.

So he might have been harmless, but then I get in the checkout line. The guy in the line next to us starts trying to carry on a conversation with me about Isaiah. For some reason, you put a baby in your cart and everyone becomes your best friend. He was kind of odd, but friendly enough.

As I finished paying, I realized that he is in the next lane arguing with the cashier and a manager. He wanted to return some chips and apparently they were unable to take them back (Probably some CA law about returning food). He apparently refused to leave until he got his money back. He said something about calling the police, so the manager said she would go call the police about him. She left and the cashier argued with him some more, saying, “We can’t take it back. We can’t give you your money back. Just leave. Just leave!” Then another manager came up and told him he could come back and talk to the owner tomorrow. The guy refused and said he was going to stand right there until he got his money back. It couldn’t have been more than $5.00! No one was yelling, but the situation was tense, mainly because the guy was obviously crazy and who knows what he was going to do next. I got out as quick as I could… before something got ugly.

So the moral of my story is, don’t shop on Sundays, wearing a skirt, with a baby in your cart. If you do, all of the weirdos will talk to you. I just need my husband back home to protect me!

Please follow and like us: