{"id":1168,"date":"2011-02-14T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mamamonk.com\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2011-02-14T00:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:01:55","slug":"a-valentines-day-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2011\/02\/a-valentines-day-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"A Valentine&#8217;s Day Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Chris and I have never been much for Valentine smooches and the necessity of lover-gifts on February 14<sup>th<\/sup> (not that I don\u2019t love V-Day\u2026though I love it in the sense of wearing red and making homemade cards and heart cookies with pink sprinkles with my kid\u2026not fancy dates and glitter balloons).\u00a0 However, it is a day for love and, so, I feel the need to give my husband the honor he deserves on this Shiny-Red-Sweet-Day.<\/p>\n<p>In his honor, what almost seven years of marriage to Christopher Hohorst has taught me about life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> There are lots of brains in the world that are not like mine. I\u2019m grateful grateful grateful to have found and loved his.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Saying the Peace at church is the best time of all to apologize for marriage failures. We get better at that every week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Naps are a beautiful thing and are never to be begrudged by one\u2019s spouse, especially when you share a kid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When we make a lovely meal (how wonderful is a sliced onion?) or sip a good wine, we worship a God who creates beauty out of chaos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Appreciating good style or design or art or perfectly formed sentences is also making beauty out of chaos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>My identity is not found in what I do or how I succeed but in the reality that I am God\u2019s beloved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If we stop telling each other how funny\/kind\/smart\/interesting\/weird the other is, we will forget how.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Said the Mr to me yesterday in the car on our way home from a weekend away with our church: \u201cI\u2019m realizing that when we\u2019re not connecting or not treating each other with kindness, we\u2019re living out something that\u2019s not true about who God is making us to be.\u201d That\u2019s deep, right?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you marry a man with a good jaw, his handsomeness will extend into the days of gray\u2026Can\u2019t wait.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want to know if your man will be a good father, notice how kind he is toward you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As I had the opportunity to appreciate again on this past Saturday afternoon, I love sitting in the sun with that man and letting him read to me (as long as he reads <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/03\/rebirth-of-the-guinea-hens\/8375\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">something I find interesting<\/a>, ie not <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cultural-Contradictions-Capitalism-20th-Anniversary\/dp\/0465014992\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism<\/em><\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the most awesome\/disturbing picture ever of my husband, part of me, and baby T-Rexy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Valentine\u2019s Day to you! I hope you walk around all day with glitter stuck to your hands and a pocket full of empty, red chocolate wrappers\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and I have never been much for Valentine smooches and the necessity of lover-gifts on February 14th (not that I don\u2019t love V-Day\u2026though I love it in the sense of wearing red and making homemade cards and heart cookies with pink sprinkles with my kid\u2026not fancy dates and glitter balloons).\u00a0 However, it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,50,84,126],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-being-loved","tag-food","tag-marriage","tag-sweet-monday"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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