Life can take you in some pretty odd directions at times.
We were visiting my mother-in-law one weekend, when she took me to her bedroom. She told me she had something to give to me. She had a box full of picture of my husband when he was growing up, and she asked me if I wanted them. I found all kinds of odd things tucked in with the pictures. She had saved his diploma from high school. She had framed his certificate from college when he made the dean’s list and a framed certificate of his president’s list certificate. I looked at his picture as he held up the certificate and I had to laugh. My husband had hair that was longer than our daughter’s and he had a fu manchu. It was so funny to see how much he had changed. She told me she was surprised he even graduated, let alone received so many accolades. My husband was sitting in the living room, playing with our daughter. He was the owner of a HVAC company and one of the top HVAC contractors in our state. To see him sitting there, playing with our daughter, and picturing him in his HVAC uniform, was like seeing three different people. His mom told me she is proud of the HVAC contractor, father and husband he has become. I’m also proud of the HVAC contractor, father and husband, but mostly I am most proud of being the wife of the Man he has become. I just hope no one tells him that, or his head will never get through the door.