I (Rick) wanted to write a post about my partner for life. I don’t usually add any words to this blog, just some of the labor that completes the work that Amy is always posting. I have heard a lot of comments lately about how hard I work trying to get these rennovations done on the weekends and the evenings during the week. I just wanted to take this opportunity to let everyone know that I don’t do all of the labor that goes into these projects. It is true that I work hard (when Amy can get me motivated to work on them), but she is the real trooper when it comes to getting things done.  I add in a lot of the technical know-how to complete things, but Amy puts a lot of her elbow grease and her designing skills into every project. After all, amongst other things, she is the one that tiled the whole bathroom downstairs. Once I show her how to use a power tool, she does not hesitate to use it and she is great at all of the things she attempts.

Amy teaches 4 Psychology courses during the week and she is very busy every evening getting her lectures, exams and grading completed, as well as, trying to answer all the questions that her students may have. She also works as a research assistant for her Ph.D. Supervisor in which she is sometimes busy with doing loads of statistics. Even with all of this, she still finds time to motivate me in assisting her complete the DIY stuff around the house. I keep trying to get her into the pictures of the work she does around the house, but she refuses to let me put her on the blog. So, she’s going to be mad when she sees I have posted this message, plus this picture of us.

After hearing all the comments all the time about how good of a job I have done working on something, I have realized that maybe I am just the luckiest man on earth. I feel this way because I have a lovely wife who is extremely intelligent, dedicated (to me and to her work), passionate (about me and her work), loving, caring and one of the hardest working people that anyone could ever meet. Who is not afraid of rolling up her sleeves and getting elbow deep into any kind of work that is necessary.

And I am the lucky git that she chose to call her partner for life.

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