Thank goodness

So the other day I sat down at my desk first thing in the morning and was going through my mail from the day before. I was opening a large manilla envelope that had some drawings in it that I needed to process some orders. As I was pulling the drawings out of the envelope I got a paper cut on my finger. (The above picture is not me, but it looked a lot like that) As I sat at my desk and clutched that paper cut finger with my other hand and complained, out loud, to the guy that I share my office with I thought to myself, "thank goodness I cant get pregnant." Anna tells me all the time about how I complain about the littlest things, and Ill admit Im kind of a baby when it comes to the small stuff. But I got to thinking about my wife and what she's going through right now. There was a time when Anna was about 9 weeks pregnant that she was AVERAGING throwing up 10 times a day for two weeks! Every time she ate, she threw up. Every time she woke up in the morning, she threw up. Every time she showered, she threw up. Just sitting at her desk at work, she would throw up. During all of this Anna very rarely got upset. She never got mad at her situation, she never cried. And Im sitting at my desk complaining about a paper cut. Now I must say that paper cut was very nasty and Im sure due to the sevarity of it I ran a serious risk of infection! That can lead to a loss of time accident from work and no one wants that.

Seriously though, I cant explain how proud I am of my wife for the discomfort and pain she deals with for our family. She does it with with grace and beauty and I find myself loving her more every day because of her toughness. We all know if this pregnancy were up to me to do, it would be a miserable nine months full of crying and self pitty.

Anna is over 18 weeks pregnant now, almost half way there! She is starting to show and looks radiant! Thank you so much Anna for doing this for our family. I love you and Im so proud that you are my wife!