Old Cake

So when we were planning our wedding and it came time to choose the cake we were both excited. It was one of the few parts of planning that was pure fun and easy. We had a three tiered cake so we wanted to do three different flavors. We each choose a flavor for the bottom two tiers. There was no doubt in our minds what the top layer was going to be though..... Carrot cake! Our wedding cake ended up being every thing we wanted it to be. It was the most delicious cake ever! After all the cake was gone we had a conversation bout how we couldn't wait for our anniversary when we could try the carrot cake. So the year sped by. Our anniversary came and went. This last Thursday I opened the freezer to put something away and lo and behold I saw our wedding cake. I felt pretty dumb for forgetting to get it out on our anniversary. So I sat it out to defrost. Might as well eat it now! I am here to report that it is delicious and everything I thought it would taste like a year ago. Who knew that year and two week cake could taste so good?

How To Be A Good Wife

To celebrate the fact that I have I officially been a wife for a year now. I have decided to post this with my awesome commentary. This came from a 1950s high school home economics textbook.

  

1. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, to have a delicious meal -on time. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed.
( Over the course of this year I have learned that YES, the best way to a mans heart is through is stomach. However a home cooked meal every night is just not going to happen in my house. I don't quite have it altogether yet. In fact I don't think I ever will. So when there isn't a home cooked meal he will still be able to survive on whatever he can scrounge up. If I give him a good back rub he will forget the fact that I didn't make dinner )
2. Prepare yourself. Take fifteen minutes to rest so that you will be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your makeup, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking. He has just been with a lot of work weary people. Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift.

( I don't have much to say about this. All I know is it is a good thing that I found such an awesome man who doesn't care about the fact that I don't wear makeup everyday.)  

3. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable or suggest that he lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soft, soothing and pleasant voice. Allow him to relax and unwind.
(When he gets home from work its more like I spill out everything that has happened while he was gone and anything else that I need to tell him. He patiently listens and then falls asleep. I guess my voice counts as low and soothing if he falls asleep.)

Well on a scale of one to ten I am not the perfect ten. However, I have learned so much from this year together and I have decided that I will keep him around for at least another year :)