Crying in Public

I will blame the hormones for this one.  But it happened, last Thursday.  You never know what your spouse tells people he works with about you.  Sometimes, the pessimist in me thinks it must be bad.  Especially when your husband works with a bunch of dudes.  In my mind I can see them all in their fluorescent neon shirts and hardhats whining about their "bitchy" wives and how they never get a good home-cooked dinner.  I know sometimes me and the girlfriends can get a little carried away talking about hubbies.  But boy was I wrong! 

So there I am working the vote and in walks this 40 something woman.  I ask her if she is CWA and what her name is.  She responds by asking me what my name is.  So I reply, Kate? thinking this isn't how this vote thing works.  She immediately says I know who you are, you are Stevie's wife.  Instantly in my mind I think Stevie?  No one calls the hubs Stevie.  She proceeds to tell me that she knows who I am, she loves Stevie, I am having his 3rd baby boy, etc.  She then tells me, and this is the part that got me, that Steve loves me very much and loves our family.  TEARS!  and not the cute kind.  She goes on and on about how much we mean to him, how he talks about us all the time, she knows what he got me for Christmas and she saw our wedding pictures.  Meatball showed off our wedding pics?  So me feeling all awkward for crying responds by saying how we think he's pretty great too and jokingly say I think we will keep him.  To which she responds how I better or they will come after me.  In my mind, "Excuse me?" 

All joking aside, I was so touched!  Any one that knows me, knows I had an awful husband in my previous life.  Granted, I picked him but I paid for that mistake dearly!  Sometimes, Hubby will point out how I am still jaded by the ex and I guess in some ways I am.  Not that Steve is perfect.  Him and I have had our share of ups and downs and tough times.  But after 7 years and almost 3 babies I am the happiest I have ever been.  And apparently, he is pretty happy too :)  Or so I heard from one of his coworkers. 

I realized in searching for a photo of just the 2 of us, we haven't taken a picture of just us since our wedding last year. Which is just plain unacceptable if you ask me!