How did we meet?
Brian and his friend, Tom, moved into one of the apartments in my four-plex. My friend, Becky, had lived in an apartment house in town when Tom lived there. Tom didn't have a lot of female friends ..... he wanted them, he just didn't have any. (No offense Tom). So his birthday was February 21 and he invited Becky and I up to his apartment to celebrate his birthday. Brian was playing poker with his good friend, Stan Terry, in the kitchen. He didn't even look up when Tom introduced us all and he and Stan stayed in the kitchen while we had a beer with Tom and then left. As that semester in school went on, Brian and Tom would help me start my car and empty my mouse traps and mow my lawn.
Where did you go on your first date?
Brian invited me to be his date for a picnic all the law enforcement class were having to celebrate their graduation. He dumped me and Blake at the "wives" table and he went fishing all afternoon. Then he took us home and he left and had another date with someone else.
Our second date we went to Walla Walla and picked strawberries and made strawberry jam.
How Long have you been together?
We just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary on July 22. We met and first got engaged 35 years ago, but we broke up for almost 5 years before we got married.
Who eats more?
Definitely charlotte, sorry to say
Who said I love you first?
Absolutely no clue
Who is taller?
Brian
Who sings better?
Charlotte
Who is smarter?
The smart answer would be to say my spouse, but I think we are each smarter in different areas.
Who does the laundry?
Brian does now, but I used to.
Who does the dishes?
Again, Brian does now, but I used to. You have to watch him when you are cooking, you just set a spoon down and whish, it is either in the dishwasher or washed. He is really speedy.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?
I never know the answer to this - is it the right side when you are at the foot of the bed? or the right side when you are lying in bed on your back?
If you are at the foot of the bed, I'm on the right. But if you are lying in bed on your back, Brian is on the right.
Who pays the bills?
Charlotte
Who mows the lawn?
Brian or Alicia or Justin or a neighbor kid if we have one
Who cooks dinner?
We prepare dinner as a team = Brian and Alicia cook most of the time now, I try to plan the meals and make sure we have all the ingredients (I think the thinking up part is the hardest, so I'm usually too tired to do the cooking part, hehehe). I used to cook, but Brian is a really good cook and was famous for his baking before we got married.
Who drives when you are together?
Brian always drives in the country and Charlotte usually drives in the city = but Charlotte doesn't drive very often any more
Who is more stubborn?
ummmm, that would probably be Charlotte
Who kissed who first?
Probably mutual
Who proposed?
The first time, his sister and a friend of mine worked together and he had gone home and told everyone that he was going to marry me and she told my friend and my friend told me. At the same time, I had told my friends and family that I was going to marry him. So his sister, Jenny, had us both over to dinner and said if we were planning to get married, we should probably talk to each other about it. And from then on, we were engaged.
Then we broke up and 5 years later, I moved in with him and I knew we were going to get married, but he says he didn't. then i was having horrible nightmares and my therapist said it was because I was doing something I knew was wrong and that I had to fix it to stop the nightmares... so I said I had to move out and he said, well, I guess we could get married if we have to. And I said I wasn't going to get married because we had to. I wanted to get married because we wanted to and he said he guessed he wanted to. it was very romantic :(
Who is more sensitive?
everybody who knows me knows that Charlotte is the biggest cry baby in the world. Saddest movie on earth: ET
Who has more siblings?
Brian has 5 and I have 2
Who wears the pants?
Brian wears the pants, but I'm the boss. hehehe
We tried to divide up the kingdom a couple years ago to keep things running smoothly and we decided that I am queen of everything inside the fence and he is king of everything outside the fence. But then the fence blew over, and Justin keeps using it to build stuff, so I don't know who is in charge anymore.
When we first got married, our bishop told us that the man is the head of the house and is the final say in all decisions, but the wife is the one who determines what that decision will be. You hear people tell that as a joke, but he was serious. He taught us that a woman has so much power in the home by her attitude and her demeanor and way of handling things, that often she can influence the decisions more than her husband knows. But at the end of the day, Brian is the head of the house.
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I still maintain that the thinking part is not the hardest part about making dinner! :D
Although it is extremely difficult for SOME people to think, very taxing, not easy like the rest of us! hehe Brian
Wow! You got married 30 years ago?? You must be really old. :) Just kidding, of course. How could it have been 30 years for either of us? Crazy stuff! Fun to read your answers.
And for what its worth, I agree that at least one of the hardest parts about cooking dinner is coming up with the ideas night and after night...and having to think about it every day. Coming up with the idea. Deciding that that is indeed what you want to fix, and then having to make sure that you have everything you need for it.
Love, Earlene
I agree that think up what to fix night after night after night after night after night . . . is mentally taxing in the worst way. It is hard to come up with variety that my kids will eat and with groceries I already have and healthy and well balanced and . . . I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
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