I was grateful that we were able to be together this morning before she flew off. Shantel is the love of my life and my best friend. That truly defines the most meaningful thing for me. Shantel is my best friend. She is the one that I can talk to and share stories with. She is the one that I love to laugh with. She is truly my partner who will help me get through anything.
To celebrate she left me this present.
-Shantel is so selfless and loving. She cares most about taking care of me and my happiness. One story: We have had a lot going on lately with basement and work and to do lists. In addition, I've started trying to exercise at night. By the time we get done with the things we need to work on and get upstairs it is already late. Then I exercise, cool down and then wind down for the night and I have been getting to bed super late. Shantel is up late too and has so much going on, but she has been getting up with the kids almost every morning the last three months and letting me sleep in. She certainly is the one who deserves to sleep in, but without complaint she has let me sleep. This sacrifice by her is incredible to me and she does this full of love. She has also been bringing me up lunch during work every day since I started working from home. She does these things selflessly and with very little in return, for which I am grateful for her incredible love and charity.
-Shantel is intellectual. Shantel always brings interesting and well thought out insights when we are talking. This is one reason I would rather talk to her about things than anyone else. With such varying viewpoints about the coronavirus and protests about racial inequality, Shantel is wonderful to talk to and provides such important insights. She is also such a good listener. Sometimes I drag on talking too long, but she listens and cares about my thoughts.
-Shantel is hard working. Shantel takes care of our home and our kids and it takes a monumental effort and she is up to the challenge.
-Shantel is so funny and thinks I am funny. There are so many times when you just need a good laugh to fill her soul with joy and happiness and Shantel helps me with this so much. She says such funny things and we can end up just laughing until we cry. Our favorite joke right now is about the "portal" to another universe which can be reached through our bathroom. We got some lights in there that are the "daylight" lights and so when we turn off all the other lights as we go to bed, often, it is just those lights left on and it seriously looks like there must be a skylight letting light into that room. So we started telling a joke about how it leads to another universe. Almost every night, one of us will try and make some play on that joke. Whether it is that or some other random thing from they day, Shantel will make me laugh, plus she thinks my jokes are funny. Important side note: We are fans the "Bright White" lights. "Daylight" looks like it is outside, "Soft White" is way to yellow and not as bright. Bright White is perfect. Shantel and I can not understand why anyone would choose soft white over bright white. However we have found that stores most often stock soft white which makes it seem like the favorite. We do not understand it all all. Bright white is clearly the only way to go.
Shantel, there are not words enough to express my love. I could share a million stories about how you show me love so frequently. Just know that I love you. You are everything to me. You mean the world to me, and I love you. Happy 11th anniversary, we'll see you when you get home!
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