Reasons why I love Laura

One of the unique pleasures of working at BFA is that I get to spend nearly every lunch with my beautiful wife. During today’s meal the conversation turned to an engaged couple that we don’t know. Let me repeat that, we don’t know this young couple that is about to embark on the voyage of marital bliss, but we were talking about them.

As a side note, this is another one of the peculiar differences between men and women: women will talk about the circumstances of complete strangers with the familiarity of life-long friends, whereas men don’t care about the lives of strangers. In fact, we will hardly find much to talk about when it comes to those life-long friends. And this isn’t really an issue of insensitivity or cruelty but really an issue of practicality and interest.

But I digress. One of the two is related to one of Laura’s friends. The soon-to-be-groom or soon-to-be-bride is the brother of or the sister of this particular friend, but the exact details of the connection were details that were lost moments after I heard them (probably due to the practical fact that in all likelihood I will never meet either of the two or even hear about them again). My wife found the details important, though. Important enough to check out the blog of this couple and important enough to report on their pre-wedding joy to me. And so I return to our lunchtime conversation. She was thrilled by their young love and how they talked about how they met, what they love about each other and all the other wonderful details that a couple goes through when they fall in love.

Thus I was inspired to share my love of Laura to the world (or the 7 or so people that actually read this blog).

Here is my first list: Reasons why I love Laura

She is beautiful
She is smart
She is funny
She laughs at my jokes

But perhaps this is all too general and maybe even a little cliché. It is in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, then, that I shall delve deeper into my love for my woman! She rocks! The other night during dinner I picked up my camera because I thought she looked beautiful. She smiled and we joked and laughed and teased and we looked at the pictures and we had a wonderful time doing nothing except enjoying the company. That is why I love Laura.

Laura cooks wonderful food. The sad fact is that I am a terribly picky eater, though. She cooks anyway and is considerate about what she makes while lovingly forcing me to push my culinary horizons. It is a love-hate situation. I usually end up loving the food (like tortilla soup) but hating that she has gotten me to eat green stuff, and red stuff, and blue stuff, and all kinds of colorful vegetables. She makes her meals with love though. And pretty much every single night while I do nothing to very little she works hard in the kitchen cutting, boiling, rolling, slicing, blanching, and wielding a big knife all in preparation for dinner. That is why I love Laura.
She humors me. One: she makes me laugh. She is humorous. Laura is actually very funny. She has a very quick wit, a clever sarcasm, and an excellent knowledge of The Office one liners. She is also goofy beyond belief, but then again, so am I. (We frequently argue over which one of us is the strangest. I say she is.) She is a master of the funny-face-with-tongue-sticking-out look and will occasionally talk in the widdle-biddle-cuddly-wuddly-snoogly-poogly tone (Laura, a college educated woman; can you believe it?!) Two: she laughs at me. Another sad fact is that I think I am funnier that I really am. (Need some proof? Is any of this post actually funny? … … … I think it is!) Okay, I think I am a lot funnier than I really am but my loving and adoring wife will laugh at me in the good way, never condescending. She gets me and she knows she is a big weirdo for getting me, but she laughs anyway. That is why I love Laura.

These are just a few of the reasons I love my bride but the list could go on. And I know that sounds cliché, and I know saying “it sounds cliché” sounds cliché. Maybe I’m being cliché, I don’t care. I do have one last brief characteristic treat to share with you. Laura is smart. No, she is brilliant. This woman is way smarter than I am. She does so much with her brain to take care of me that, at this point, I don’t know what I would do without her. She is a voracious reader, has a good grasp on math, and has the horrible ability to remember just about everything I have ever said and be able to turn it back on me when it suit her. What can I say? This girl is amazing.

Every man who has a wonderful woman feels like the luckiest man in the world. That is because every man who is fortunate enough to have a wonderful woman who really loves him IS the luckiest man in the world. In my world I am the luckiest man. Why? Because I have Laura. I get to gaze into her beautiful eyes, run my hands through her silky hair, enjoy the warmth of her smile, and listen to her musical laugh. I am proud to declare to the world (all 5 of you) that I love my beloved wife! She thrills me and I never want to be without her! I love you Laura!