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Writer's pictureRachel Berntsen

peter

Updated: Aug 23, 2019

Okay, I think I need to start writing on Fridays...lol. My tutoring schedule has been constantly changing because I've been acquiring new students (I've gotten four this month! Not through my personal business, but they're students nonetheless!), so my apologies (again) for the delay.


Above is a picture of my stud muffin of a hubby. I would like to spend this post basically gushing about him. If you don't know by now, I'm a hot mess lol. Peter has a way of keeping me grounded, and he has learned to affirm me even when I'm not asking for it because he knows it's my number one love language. He goes above and beyond on a daily basis, and I just wanted to give you a glimpse into the fine specimen of a human being he is. Plus, those of you who have known me for a while don't necessarily know him very well because, well, we spent a year apart and I haven't been able to introduce him to everyone I know (and when I HAVE introduced him in the past, I'm sure it was hard for some to really get a good understanding of who he is). I haven't written a list in a while either, so here's my list of the first five things that come to mind when I feel like gushing about Peter:


1. He's patient. Let's be honest - you can't really be struggling with vaginismus and hope to overcome it without a patient husband. You also can't expect to be the type of person who has really bad mood swings while PMS-ing and takes her emotions out on her husband without him packing his bags unless he's the patient kind (my dad actually warned him that I can be absurdly emotional when Peter asked for my parents' blessing for our marriage lol). Peter honestly gets an A++ in this area.


2. He's extremely talented when it comes to music. Peter composes a lot of his own music, including the piano piece that was played in the background while I walked down the aisle at our wedding. He also wrote the music and lyrics to a song that he plays on the guitar that I've been referring to as my song because he wrote it with his future wife in mind (it makes me cry every time). He's constantly playing music in his head, and there have been times when he has sat down at the piano and played something new that had come to mind. He even has musical yawns! His talent really is amazing. Two weekends ago, we were with my oldest brother-in-law and his family, and while we were walking through town, Peter found a piano just sitting on the sidewalk, waiting to be played. He played one of his original pieces on it, and a woman working in the shop adjacent to the piano came outside and watched him the entire time, then asked him to come back and play anytime he wanted hehe. I desperately wanted to exclaim, "That's my husband! He wrote that piece himself!" I'm determined to get him a job that would allow him to create a movie soundtrack someday.


3. He's a total goofball. Sometimes I tease him and say that I've "whipped" him in the sense that he does things that he didn't really do before we met. For example, he upped his emoji game a LOT after he met me. He will also respond back to me when I start making weird noises as though I were speaking in my own made-up language. There are plenty of things he does of his own accord, though. He loves puns (annoying so). He also likes to talk in weird voices, and he sometimes goes into a high-pitched laugh when he thinks something is especially funny. He almost always takes steps two at a time like a little kid (unless he wants to hold my hand because I refuse to do the same). He loves quoting things and laughing about them too, regardless of whether or not I'm always able to understand the references. He basically does all that he can to make others laugh (and they do).


4. He's thoughtful. A couple of weeks ago, he picked some wild berries for me down the road from our house and left them for me to find after a tutoring session (they were DELICIOUS). He often prays for people that don't necessarily ask for prayer simply because he wants to wish them well. He randomly gifts people with items that he thinks will really benefit them. He humors our nieces even though sometimes he wants to participate in the adult conversations happening around him. He has also surprised me with a treat from Dunkin' Donuts on more than one occasion.


5. He's incredibly selfless. He has taken time off from work in the past to visit and care for sick family members and friends. He has stayed at work late to converse with coworkers who needed a listening ear. He lets me order Chipotle for dinner when he'd rather have chicken wings. The list goes on and on. More recently, when his plan for our Memorable Monday fell through because of the rain, and I asked if we could do some in-house karaoke, he agreed, even though he didn't appreciate that he'd have to sing the part of the "bad guy" in Love is an Open Door from Frozen hehe. He got to sing as Aladdin first, though, so he DID play the role of a Disney prince at some point. ; )


And that, my friends, is a brief picture of what my amazing husband Peter is like. Let's hope this doesn't get to his head.

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