'I loved you first': This wife's letter to her husband is so honest and beautiful
Nearly two years ago, Jessica Satterfield decided to write her husband a letter as a Father's Day gift.
In the letter, the mum-of-two highlights the changes that the pair have gone through over the years and since welcoming their two children, and not surprisingly, it resonated with a lot of people.
"I remember you picking me up for our first date," she writes on her blog, Grace While We Wait.
"I spent a whole hour getting ready for you. Making sure every hair was in place and my make-up was perfect. When you see me now at the end of the day, the make-up that is left on my face is smeared.
"My hair is more than likely in a pony tail or some rat’s nest on the top of my head. And my outfit, 100% has someone’s bodily fluids smeared somewhere."
Recalling the lazy days and spontaneous moments they enjoyed when they first met, Jessica admits that those days are long gone, replaced with bath time and tantrums.
But not all the time.
Sometimes Jessica and her husband still manage to get time together, time that she considers to be incredibly precious and important.
"You see, these little ones that need so much from us right now, won’t be little forever. They’re already growing so much faster than we’d like.
"One day, we’ll have a Friday night when we don’t need a babysitter and I’ll get to listen to every new recruit our team has signed. I’m sure I’ll go on and on about some crazy idea I have and you’ll shake your head and tell me to go for it.
"And then these years, the ones we’re living, will be only memories.
"It’ll be just us again. And we’ll be talking about the way Selah used to say “posgot” or the way Micah covered his mouth when something was really funny. We’ll remember how dog tired we were.
"And we’ll miss these days (maybe not the tired part). We’ll miss the sacred time we steal away to be together. We’ll miss stealing those kisses during Sofia or flirting in the kitchen."
"But these moments, of us loving each other first, will be the ones that shape our love forever."
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