to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown
All...(this is ben, I know all of our posts say BDC but you can tell which ones are written by Allison, because their perfect:) isn't Allison the greatest! After conference yesterday I was thinking about how lucky I am to have had such an incredible young woman fall in love with me, and then after the fall, to stay in love with me through all of my imperfections.
Allison's sweet voice, bright smile, and loving kindness really are the sweetest sounds that Adele, Alex, and I ever hear. She sacrifices so much everyday to make our home a safe haven. Not only that but she's always doing something for someone else. I think many of you know this. She thinks of you, the main readers of this blog, often and tries so hard so to call from time to time to visit. She bakes rolls and cookies, dinners and cakes, almost weekly and never does it in search of praise but because she loves others.
Day after day I come home tired and worn out after working an eighth as hard as she has and she still works on making dinner, bathing kids, and finishing yet another project, a quilt for the first child of my boss, a quilt for Alex, a birthday card for a friend, a loaf of bread for the neighbor.
Allison inspires me to be better! and I'm quite certain each of you regular readers inspire your husbands to be better as well. You each do so much in the quiet of your homes to teach and train these sweet little children, who aren't always perfectly sweet, and sometimes, or oft times are more than one handfull, but two or three handfulls. Know we love you all, and not only am I grateful for my sweet wife Allison, but for her many incredible, supportive, and kind friends.
-bdc
it's nice that the date's on there. this is when ben and i had been married two and a half months, and we went backpacking in teton national park for a "second honeymoon." this is one of the hidden lakes. we were the only people camping there for the night, and had to camp kind of under a rocky ridge. that night there was this horrific rain and electrical storm that rocked our tent, and in the calm right before the storm we heard cougars screaming (it sounds like a baby screaming...we initially thought that some other backpackers were being mauled by bears). good thing we had each other, or i'd have probably cried all night. as it was, i just shivered all night.
