i hate to brag.
no, i really don't.
:)
during hurricane sandy, we expected to lose power. as an 'essential employee' my husband might have had to go in, so he set up the generator and gave me careful, explicit instructions on how to get her going if i needed to in his absence, and walked me through the process.
the power went out monday night, and as it happened, he was able to stay home on tuesday. so i snuggled back into the blankets and waited to hear the generator fire up. it stopped and started a few times, and i just went back to sleep and ignored it all until i woke to the smell of fresh-brewed coffee.
unbeknownst to my blanketed self, my husband went downstairs to the electrical panel to turn it off before starting the generator, and noticed that his fingers were wet. apparently the wind was so strong it somehow blew the rain back INTO the house (through some sort of orifice it can't usually access) and had soaked the panel. had i been the one in charge, i would never have noticed and would have started that bad boy up, then gone back and flipped the switches, and got anything from a nasty shock to DEAD.
since it was my husband, he ran an extension cord up to the generator, started it up, plugged in a hair dryer, dried each bit of the panel separately, put it back together, got it all up and running, and made me coffee. all while i slept in.
because he is macgyver.
so i got to sleep in, wake to coffee, and not be dead!
and we have decided that in the event of a power outage when he's not home, i'll just light a fire and use flashlights until he makes it home. or go to a hotel.
what has your husband done lately that makes him a hero?
:) khairete
S.
Yeah that is an awsome husband.
Mine is awsome as well! Thanks for the brag post..... Dont get to do that as often about the husband...
Om a daily basis, my husband outshines anyone I've ever met. He is more kind, forgiving, just, talented, hard working, family oriented, and wonderful then anyone else. Out of the billions of people on earth, it pretty much feels like a privilege to even know him.
The other day I walked in to see my husband coloring with my son and singing to him. He gave him a big hug and told him what a good boy he was, and proud of him he is. Pretty awesome moment to witness.
Thanks, for reminding me :)
My husband, an FDNY firefighter, & his colleagues have been sent to the Rockaways & Breezy Point (where about 100 homes were destroyed by Sandy) to help people in any way they can (including searching for people who didn't make it through the storm). I just got a message from him that he was coming home after a 24-hour shift and spending all night at Breezy Point. He never complains....He just talks about how terrible it is there, how badly he feels for everyone there, and how he wishes he could help the people even more.
Your husband is definitely awesome. Mine is too, but that is for some other time. He deserves the spotlight right now.
I agree with Sheila! Your husband deserves the spotlight right now. Mine is awesome as well and maybe some other time I will share how blessed I am.
Even though my husband doesn't get home until 2am when he closes down our restaurant, he gets up and takes our daughter to school because he knows how much it means to her.
Last week when the dishwasher broke he washed dishes all week because he knows how much I LOATHE the very thought of hand washing dishes.
my husband just plan works hard and work all the over time he can so i can stay home and be here in case our son needs me!!! i'm the most spoiled woman in our town because there isn't a thing i need or want....he has fulfilled them all!!!!
Hubby cleared the yard of all leaves.
My hero! :)
Sweet!
Mine is pretty regularly awesome too.
(Except when he's sick.
Like now.
Then he's a vapor.)
Lol.
Love this story!
My husband is amazing. While it did take him a long time to finish our house, he did it himself and he did it RIGHT. He is amazingly bright and always figures out the best way to do something. And he is also extremely good with our money. It is so nice to have someone so trustworty to rely on. We will retire with dignity!
I am so glad you shared this story with us.
My husband is super awesome as well. He cleaned up the guest room, patio and painted trim while I was shopping with our daughter. He is amazing. Your hubby is fabu as well. Aren't we lucky ladies to be married to such great guys???!!!
My husband is always awesome. In that case the panel would have never got wet because he would be working on the assumption that I would electrocute myself. So he would have built an enclosure keeping everything nice and dry, educated me about the hazards and still got up and done everything anyway.
He works with control systems, so by trade he an electrician, programmer, project manager.....you get the point, it is his job to evaluate things like this.
When I am in a hurry it is damn near annoying but when I sit back afterwards he is totally awesome.
That's awesome S.!
We weren't affected by the storm, but my husband is great every day. You don't see me posting questions about him on this site, because I know how blessed I am to have such a great guy. And he really is great. He earns enough that I can stay home with our kids and he doesn't expect me to keep the house spotless and every meal on the table at 6:00, homecooked from scratch. He thinks nothing of me picking up takeout several times a week (b/c I am ferrying the kids around to extracurriculars instead of standing in the kitchen). He helps with the laundry, the dishes, mops the floors, mows the lawn, edges the sidewalk/driveway and offers to grill dinner anytime he is at home for dinner (which isn't but 3 times a week or so).
He loves my family and gets along with them. Is gracious to a fault to anyone who comes into our home. He doesn't gripe about what I spend money on. (In fact, I went and spent WAY more than I normally would on a purse this past Saturday--way more....and I said it was "more than I wanted to spend", and he didn't even ask how much it cost).
He makes the coffee almost every day. He changes the sheets on the bed.
He is a wonderful man. He loves me (in the active sense of the word) in spite of all my many faults.
Hero? Every day. He goes off to work, so I don't have to. A short sweet specific? He gave our 14 yr old son another driving lesson in my 6 speed yesterday. tee hee
My husband is awesome as well. He may take a long time to do something but I know it's done right. He's also extremely thoughtful. I could go on but your husband deserves the moment to shine!
awww you have a great husband!
My husband is awesome too :) He is really working SO hard for us to make it each month. He has been working 16 hour shifts 2-4 days a week on top of his regular 8 hour shift. On the days he is off work (he works grave shift), he likes to stay on that schedule and not sleep at night, so last week I woke up and the laundry was all done and folded, and he had even cleaned the bathrooms!! He said he was bored and didn't just want to sit and watch tv when everyone else was sleeping, so he decided to clean, lol!
Also I don't have a lot of friends where I live (just moved here almost 2 years ago) and I was feeling a bit lonely and he had left for work already. I went up stairs to clean up a little and I went into our room and he had left a really sweet card on the bed for me :) We are trying to find a babysitter so we can go out sometime but it's hard since he is only off work on Wed and Thurs. and not on the weekends. But I know he will keep trying and we will figure out something soon.
He is awesome!!
My husband makes my coffee every morning and brings it up to me in bed.
When my bestie lived with us (she was dying of cancer) every morning he made her tea and her English muffin with honey. Anything we wanted or needed he was there. I was also very very I'll, at times critical, he was my rock. We have been married for 37 years, four children and eight grandchildren. Can't imagine life without him.
I can't believe you used the Macgyver term - I've been calling DH that all week. He spent all afternoon last Sunday rigging up a boat bilge pump to his car battery (don't ask me how, I have no idea). We have a regular basement pump but it's useless in a power outage. He also watched the weather channel and decided it was too dangerous to stay in our house for the storm (although we don't live in Seaside Heights as my incognito profile states). We do live near a river and small stream that rises with the tide but they've never flooded before in the 20 years we've lived here.
So we headed to my sister's house and waited it out. I got a text from my neighbor less than 100 feet from my house that the ocean let loose and her house was completely surrounded within minutes. Their basement filled to the ceiling with water. They were fine but we expected to see the same thing when we got home on Tuesday. To our amazement, we only had 2 inches of water and the 7-8 inches at the height of the storm had been pumped out by the rigged bilge pump. We actually had to leave the car in the driveway with the keys in it and it couldn't be locked. Nobody took the car either. Thanks, Macgyver!
PS - DH also lets me sleep in (until 11 or later if possible) whenever I need to which is pretty often. He never even insinuates that I'm lazy (he knows better). Awesome!
Awww... letting me sleep in is the key to my heart!
He recently left for Ohio to help with the Obama campaign (major awesomeness points in my book) and the last thing he did in his rush out the door was clean the toilets. Now that's true love :D
He told me what the latest date we're supposed to send care packages is! We're on the downward slide, OH YEAH!! :)
