Feeling Grateful

I'm a pretty blessed person. I can go on and on about those blessings. But today I'm feeling particularly grateful for that cute husband of mine.

The other day I tried out a new method of doing my mascara and was feeling particularly proud of my longer looking eyelashes. So I say to Tristan, "Hey Tristan, do my eyelashes look pretty?" (Yep, I sure did ask him that. As well as a variety of "Does my hair have any kinks in the back?" "Do I smell okay?" and "I don't look as big as I do looking in this mirror, right?") To which he looked at my eyelashes and said, "Oh yeah, did you get them threaded?" HAHA. I was laughing sooo hard. At the time. But looking back I thought it was one of the sweetest things he's ever said. Let me explain.

I often tease Tristan that he has 'selective hearing' or 'only listens to things he wants to hear', etc. But I had been telling him how I was thinking about getting my eyebrows threaded, but was too chicken (my mom does it and loves it). If you don't know what threading is, it's like getting your eyebrows tweezed, but much quicker and without a break and is said to be more precise than waxing. You should look it up! It's super cool to see (they actually use thread). ANYWAY, I just appreciated that he listened to my feminine issues, and was genuinely trying to understand what threading was (but clearly he didn't understand, haha).

And let me tell you, being married to me is not always easy, especially when I'm pregnant. I'm kind of a baby and always tired and am always making him get up to get me things. But he does it without a second thought and says sweet things like, "I love your pregnant self." Which, I think, is a complete lie. I'm 5'2" guys. That's so short! So when I'm pregnant, I'm like super frumpy, round, and my proportions are just off. I know I'm not attractive, but he makes an effort to make me feel like I am.

So here's to awesome husbands everywhere for enduring pregnant wives and making an effort to understand their concerns, even as something as menial as eyelashes. Love you, Tristan.