Today we celebrated my 40th birthday with all the family and friends coming to the house. My W put a great deal of time and efforet into the planning, preperation and executing of the party. I helped as often as she would let me, which is something I've neglected to do over the years. When it was time for clean up I rolled up my sleeves and pitched in just as I have been for sometime now. I got a little grief from some of the family and friends as I was cleaning up. Comments like do you do windows too were thrown about. However I just smiled and said you should try it you might find out you actually enjoy helping out. I know I do! Comments like that were just the kind of thing that made me stop helping in the first place. That was one of my mistakes, putting my macho above my W
Anyway on to what I did differemt.
After all the cleaning was done I decided to run out to the store and pick up a blank Thank You card. I spent the next 30 minutes trying to figure out what I wanted to say. After all this is new to me but something I should have done long ago. I've always thanked her when she does something nice for me but I never actually wrote a thank you out before. I started the note with a cute joke saying that now that I'm 40, I thought that I'd better write her a note before the athritis begins to set in and then I went on to tell her how much I love and appreciate her by thanking her for all the hard work and effort she put into making my 40th birthday a very special day and one that I would always remember. I stood the card up on her night stand after she went to sleep and we will wait to see what happens in the morning when she wakes. Wish me luck! I'm thinking it can't hurt and I really did want to thank her for what she did!
