Too Hot to Handle: The Twelve Days of Christmas

Thursday, January 6, 2011

The Twelve Days of Christmas

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me

twelve muddy paws
eleven single mittens
ten pleas for Wii time
nine stacks of papers
eight touchdown screams
seven red clad Badgers
six hungry Halseys
five loads of laundry
four muppets laughing
three tails wagging
two tutus twirling
And a firefighter at E2

Happy Epiphany!

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3 comments:

brianJanuary 6, 2011 at 8:51 AM
Only five loads of laundry? During Christmas break, our kids gave us eleventy-billion :)
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UnknownJanuary 6, 2011 at 10:04 AM
NICE - mind you, that was only on the 5th day of Christmas - the laundry from the other 7 days is still calling for my attention!
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I AM

Taken from "The Fireman's Wife" by Susan Farren

I am thank ful. This has not always been an easy walk for me.

I am disappointed. We have missed family gatherings, weddings, dinner engagements, birthday parties, and holidays because of shift schedules and overtime.

I am patient. There have been dinners spent at the firehouse waiting for Daddy to return from a call while the kids get cranky and the food gets cold.

I am nervous. I awake at 3:00 A.M. hearing creaks in the house and don't have the comfort of my husband beside me.

I am tired. The house is full of sick kids and there is no relief in site because Daddy is on a seventy-two-hour shift.

I am jealous. Jealous of all the women whose husbands came home at 5:00 P.M. to have dinner and hold them at the end of their day.

I am worried. I worry that he may not come home one day. This I try to tuck away.

I am content. We have decided to give up my career so I can stay home and raise our children. We no longer have an abundance of money or things. It is the greatest freedom I have ever known.

I am incompetent.There was a time when I considered myself moderately intelligent. I now struggle to remember where I left my car keys, the diaper bag, and, occasionally, the baby.

I am waiting. Knowing the phone may one day ring for me.

I am doubting. Doubting that God hears all my prayers. Doubting I am the kind of wife and mother He needs me to be.

I am trusting. Trusting that my husband will come home again.

I am confident, I am embarrassed, I am lonely, I am surprised, I am overworked, I am underpaid.

I am...The Fireman's Wife.