You're My Best Friend

The other day a friend sent me a message on Facebook, asking about my wife Tracey, wondering if she had her own Facebook. This friend said she'd like to say 'Hi' to Tracey (essentially meaning, communicate with her via the internet). Well, Tracey doesn't have a Facebook account. No Myspace. No blog. No Yahoo Messenger. Not much of an online presence at all! In fact, she rarely spends any time at all on the computer. It's just who she is! Tracey is absolutely unlike me in so many ways!

But we've discovered along the way that it's not being alike that makes our marriage. In fact, what makes us friends is not that we have so many things in common. We often joke about all our differences. She loves leopard prints and colorful clothes. I love jeans and a single-colored t-shirt. She loves arts and crafts --- and she's great at sharing her talents with the kids. I can perhaps draw three circles and hope that someone sees it's a snowman. She listens to modern praise and worship and I listen to classic rock. We both love 80's pop though! She's neapolitan and mint chocolate chip and I'm plain vanilla, all day, every day, in every way.

The point is... well, I have no real point that I'm trying to make! I just wanted to say that you don't hear anything from Tracey on this blog, and the biggest reason for that is because this just isn't her thing. But yet, despite all the ways in which we're different, Tracey is my best friend. She does a great job raising her "four" kids. One is 10, one is almost 8 (two weeks from today), one is almost 40 and the last one is named Puppa. She is a hard worker. She is the most faithful, dependable person I've ever known.

This isn't to celebrate an anniversary, a birthday or anything of the sort. This is just because! "I'm happy at home... You're my best friend."

Queen - You're My Best Friend