So, today I'm sitting here thinking about my son, Clarke, and decided to blog.
He recently took a new job in a distant city, a very busy job that is requiring 70 hour weeks out of him... on salary. Surely, it will slow down in the winter (hopefully) but in the meantime he is pretty tired.
A couple of weeks ago, we kidnapped his wife and 2 babies, bringing them down to our house. They all missed their daddy/husband and I'm sure he missed them... but his loss was our gain. He has the most adorable wife and the absolutely cutest little girls and we just never seem able to get our fill of them, so we devised a plan where we would bring them home for special events and then fly Clarke home over the long weekend of Memorial day. It was Barry's wedding and we had lots of family in town.
While he was alone, Clarke was still working very long hours at his very demanding job. On top of that, just because he is so sweet, he decided to take the few extra hours he could have spent sleeping and used them instead to unpack all of their moving boxes, organize the entire house and even buy and install bookshelves as a surprise for his wife when she got home.
Needless to say, he was very tired when he finally arrived late the night before the wedding. He hardly told a soul about what he'd done, fearing that someone might spill the beans and spoil his wife's surprise.
On the morning of the wedding, he got up early, helped get the girls ready, and they all took off to the temple. Then, he had a flat tire on the way... and then the baby needed to be fed and burped... twice... and then, he was so exhausted that he fell asleep at the wheel. Fortunately, those blessed rumble strips woke him up before anything horrible could happen.
He arrived at the temple before we even made it into the sealing room for the wedding, but he thought he had missed it... and was feeling terribly about that. As fortune would have it, they waited and we finally found him and he made it in.
Our family was complete for the day!
What a great guy!
And Caro LOVED her surprise.
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