Ryan Horst
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This seems as good of a forum section as any to post something like this. I know it was a common, often celebrated, practice to write letters, love notes/poems, etc, to spouses when away from home - whether at war, hunting afield, away just for work. Have any of you guys taken up the challenge?
Years ago I wrote a short bedtime story for my wife as a way of working through our infertility issues early in our marriage. It started when she asked me to tell her a bedtime story to help her get to sleep after a particularly hard doctor’s appointment. The really cool thing is that before I finished the story, though, we found out we were pregnant with our first daughter (of three, now). I finished it after she was born.
My wife is the epitome of “girl boss,” acting as the Executive Director for a multi-million dollar nonprofit organization funded through an endowment. She’s also a 5th degree Tae Kwon Do instructor. Trying to balance that work/life balance has been progressively hard for her, and she was having a hard start to what became a harder year this past year. So for Valentine’s Day, I wrote this for her and framed it. I’m hard at romantic gestures (I might be undiagnosed autistic), so she really loved this one.
Let me know if you can’t read the text in the pic and I’ll post up the whole poem as text.
Years ago I wrote a short bedtime story for my wife as a way of working through our infertility issues early in our marriage. It started when she asked me to tell her a bedtime story to help her get to sleep after a particularly hard doctor’s appointment. The really cool thing is that before I finished the story, though, we found out we were pregnant with our first daughter (of three, now). I finished it after she was born.
My wife is the epitome of “girl boss,” acting as the Executive Director for a multi-million dollar nonprofit organization funded through an endowment. She’s also a 5th degree Tae Kwon Do instructor. Trying to balance that work/life balance has been progressively hard for her, and she was having a hard start to what became a harder year this past year. So for Valentine’s Day, I wrote this for her and framed it. I’m hard at romantic gestures (I might be undiagnosed autistic), so she really loved this one.
Let me know if you can’t read the text in the pic and I’ll post up the whole poem as text.
funny but true. She deserves the world, and I wouldn’t want to do life with anyone else
