40 reasons I love my husband, on the occasion of his 40th birthday. 38.

You stay far away from me when we sleep. 37. You, being a happy morning person, dont mind that Im totally NOT one. 36. Sometimes, out of the blue, you bring me my favorite coffee when I wake up. 35. You unknowingly wore your bow-tie upside down when we got married, which cracks me up every time I see a pic from our wedding. 34. You havent brought up the budget spreadsheet to me in the past of couple of weeks. Although Im sure that day is coming soon now that I said that. Damn. 33. You pronounce Chanel as channel. 32. Out of everyone in the house, you contribute the least dirty laundry. 31. You agree there is only one choice: a REAL christmas tree. 30. You handle medical situations 1000 times better than I do. 29. With the exception of anything being done to ME. Then you want to pass out. (hello, remember when I got my epidural? And the time when I had to get stitches in my hand? The docs and nurses were more crowded around you than me.) 28. You love my family. 27. My family loves you. 26. You do an AWESOME Sean Connery-playing-Jeopardy impression (a la Saturday Night Live). I personally think it is even more hilarious than Darrell Hammond. Suck it, Trebek. 25. You let me shave your head that time. Which was AWESOMELY fun to do. 24. You dont care if I put up the Christmas tree before your birthday. Which is just so ridiculous of me. Why cant I just wait? Because waiting until December 1st just seems like fooooooooorever away. 23. Your brain and its infinite knowledge of all things technical makes my life so easy. 22. How much you support me in EVERYTHING I do. Or attempt. 21. How you never stress about the little things. Ever.

20. How sometimes, if all the stars are aligned, you kind of love Paprika. 19. Chinese food on Sunday nights. 18. We like to make fun of the exact same people. 17. Sometimes we wonder if those exact same people are making fun of us. 16. They probably are. Which cracks us up. 15. That time right after we tuck the kids into bed, and right before we go to bed.where we are both sitting on the couches with our laptops in glorious heavenly peace and quiet. 14. That time right after we both decide we are DONE with our laptops for the nightand we go to our room to watch The Biggest Loseror The Officeor Lost or one of the other million tv shows I tivo. 13. How you wont eat again after you brush your teeth for the night. That kills me but I love your willpower. Especially when Im sitting next to you in bed with a bowl of Lucky Charms. I dont know how you resist. They are magically delicious. 12. How you never blink an eye about taking care of the boys when I go out with my friends. 11. Sushi & wine on the front porch while the kids play with sidewalk chalk. 10. For introducing me to Pandora. 9. For all the times you gave ME the new car.and you took the old car. (One of these days, when we are rich, Im totally buying you a very new, very expensive, very manly gadget-filled car and I promise not to take it from you.) 8. For not making me do the duathlon with you. 7. The way you look with your skater hat on. (or is it a ski cap? I dont know. You know that hat though) 6. How I went out to girls night one time and you watched the boys. I thought you were going to feed them dinner and put them to bed. You had other ideas. You piled them in the car, drove over to the surf shop, and bought them skater hats to match yours. 5. Its kind of cute that Ive probably only ever heard you call by my real name maybe oh3?4?times in my life. 4. Coffee shorts. Enough said.

3. The fact that you dont mind that I blog about you. And our kids. And our life. All the time. 2. How much you love that I love this blog. 1. How you never actually read this blog. (Seriously, this fact just cracks me up. I love that about you. And Im willing to bet that I am going to have to forward you this post via email or else you might be 43 by the time you get around to reading it...)