You can learn a lot from a dummy

I’ve learned a lot from the internet. I’ve read several forums where people talk about their husbands or their parents or their in-laws and it’s taught me a lot. It’s confirmed to me just how much I have to be grateful for, how blessed I truly am.

I’m blessed with parents who love and respect me. They are still my parents, but they know they are the parents of adults now and not children and they treat us as such. They know that they raised their kids and it’s now our turn to raise ours. I’ve learned from the internet that there are a lot of people who are not so blessed.

And I’ve learned that I’m equally blessed with equally awesome in-laws. They respect us and love us and treat us as adults and let us parent as we see fit.

I read stories on the internet of parents and in-laws who undermine the wishes and desires of parents, try to be the parent, or even basically kidnap their grandkids while they are watching them. I’m so blessed to not have those types of people in my life.

And then I read about some of the men women marry. And I realize how incredibly blessed I am to have a husband who works hard for our family outside our home and then comes home and is an awesome father and husband who can cook dinner, clean the kitchen, and bathe and put our daughter to bed without complaint and without me micromanaging the whole thing. Because I trust him. He’s an amazing adult. Otherwise I wouldn’t have married him. It wasn’t until the internet that I realized there were so many women who found so many men where none of what goes on in our house would work because at least one of them isn’t actually a mental adult.

I have a husband who supports and defends me 100%. We watched “The Right Stuff” together a week or so ago and the scene where John Glenn tells his wife that if she doesn’t want the vice-president in their home then the vice-president doesn’t get to come into their home – Brett would totally do that for me.

I am very blessed. The internet has confirmed that repeatedly to me.