Happy Thanksgiving, you guys! We hope you’re all enjoying this time with family, relaxing, eating lots of yummy food, and most of all, reflecting on life’s many blessings. Life is good, and we have so much to be thankful for this year, including God, our health, family, our business, food and a bed to sleep in at night. And of course, marriage is always near the top of our list. Someone else wakes up each morning and chooses to love us unconditionally, forever. For better or for worse. That, friends, is something to be thankful for.
The other day, we saw a video from BuzzFeed entitled “Weird Things Couples are Thankful For” come across our Facebook timeline. In keeping with the spirit of Thanksgiving, the video describes the often untold, quirky reasons why couples are thankful for each other. When the video was over, Eric’s reaction to the parody was, “that was beautiful.” Although the video was meant to be funny, we got to thinking about how true to life it really is. There are so many little, odd reasons why we’re so thankful for our relationship and why marriage is the best thing ever!
So without further ado, here are our 5 ridiculous (but oh so true!) reasons why we’re thankful for marriage this Thanksgiving.
1. The kitchen is a judge-free zone
When one of you is just as bad of a cook as the other, you can both eat dinner with a grimace on your face and not feel bad. We’re thankful that we’re both okay with eating some sort of baked chicken concoction each night because, well, we can’t make anything else. We’re absolutely awful in the kitchen, and we always forget to tend to those very important little details like straining ground beef, lining the pan, etc. It’s usually always a disaster, and we’ve come to terms with it.
2. Our ridiculous love for cats is understood.
And not just understood, it’s celebrated! If you’ve met us, this probably goes without saying, but all we’ve got to say is thank you, God! We can’t even imagine being married to someone who didn’t equally adore the perfect, adorable, angel babies from Heaven! We make songs up about our cats and wear matching cat socks, and boy, are we thankful that the weird looks only come from outside the house. From our home to yours, Happy Thankskitten and Meowy Christmas!
3. We’ve got each other’s back(side).
We’d never leave each other when the going gets tough. Zombie apocalypse, Armageddon, etc. We’re looking out for the other… But we’re always there for each other during one specific catastrophe that happens pretty regularly in the Gay household… Dun. Dun. Dun!! There’s no toilet paper! As Marvin Gaye (how appropriate!?) once said, “Just call my name… I’ll be there in a hurry. You don’t have to worry.” The toilet paper is on its way.
4. House cleaning turns into a dance party.
Laundry was so boring pre-marriage. We make it a point to turn something not-so-fun into something bearable by cranking up the tunes, singing and dancing during household chores. This cleaning style comes highly recommended.
5. We get to make out with our coworker.
Where else can you hook up with your business partner besides in romance novels or the occasional Shonda Rhimes TV show? You didn’t think we’d go there? Oh, we did.
Have a great Thanksgiving, friends!
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