October 26, 2009
Three Things Tiffany Makes Look Easy
My wife can do so many things at one time and make them look effortless. This is a small tribute to her mad skills.
Cooking
She seems to instinctively know how to plan, shop, prepare, and pull-off fantastic meals many times a week.I don’t know how she gets all these courses done at the same time. I have to do one thing at a time in the kitchen. Sometimes I open the refrigerator and just stare. Not because it’s cool, but because I can’t remember what I was looking for. She cooks amazing meals for us, and she is awesome.
Grocery shopping
When I am sent on an errand to the market, on average I cover the entire distance of the store the same number of times as the number of items on my list. And if I am going after more than one thing, I need a list. I don’t care that I only have to remember milk and olives. I want a list. Otherwise I’d have to call her. And that’s embarrassing. (Uhhh…babe, what was that second thing on the list?) I can’t imagine how I would have made it before we had cell phones. I’d still be wandering aimlessly around the store. Reading the label on every single item until it rings a bell. And not only do I need the item on the list, I need the brand and the size, even if we’ve been using that product for 10 years. There’s a lot of unexplained activity going on in my head. If something’s on my list like sweetened condensed powdered milk, I just give up and walk out. She has a list of 77 things. Her entire list is based on the layout of the store, and she never goes down the same aisle twice. And to top it off, she usually has at least one kid in tow.
Fixing other people’s hair
After 33 years, I’m still not sure I know how to fix my own hair very well (evidenced by my most recent hair cut which I still haven’t posted picture of), much less someone else’s. Now that Tiffany works in the mornings, I have to make Caleb’s hair. I even have to—eek—use a hair dryer. I have no hair dryer experience. If I were to use a hair dryer on my hair, it would look like a big frizzy fro. Sometimes Caleb’s hair is sticking up one side like a rooster. The good thing is, he could care less about his hair. I could spike it (or shave off his hair like I did mine), and he probably wouldn’t even notice. He looks in the mirror about once a day when he’s spitting water all over it at teeth-brushing time. It’s too bad that se’s not going to have any friends one day in school, unless I can get better at this or Tiffany quits her morning job. Caleb looks like a kid model when she does his hair.
There are several other things that belong on this list too like banking, housework, gift giving, remembering where things are, keeping up with medications, and oh yeah…getting lost. Sorry babe, that’s why you’ve got me to give you directions.
She comes home today, and we’re all happy.
