1. She gets mad when you sing a song and the next thing she knows she is singing it it all day! She HATES it, we love to torture her with it! "Ham it Up! You gotta Ham it UP!!"
2. She is the favorite parent to my kids!! Every time Chase wants a treat and I've told him no, he goes running to Pam because he knows she will give it to him! She was a push over for those big brown eyes!
3. She did the dishes A LOT!! As many of you might know, I HATE doing the dishes. When Rawlin was home it was our deal that I made dinner, and he did the dishes. Pam, with the exception of a few times I was motivated, took over that duty!! I can't count on one hand how many times Pam told us she would stop doing them if we didn't rinse off our dishes. She always did them anyway!
4. She taught me that getting ready is overrated!!
5. "Yuck Yuck Yuck Yuck!!" and other shenanigans!! I know that doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone else but Pam, but when the kids had gone to bed and we were trying to unwind from the day she would make me laugh so hard. That's the closest I have ever come to peeing my pants while laughing!
6. She would finish my sentences. This may not seem like a big deal, but there were more times than I would like to count where we said the same thing at the same time! We never got use to that. I guess quirky minds think alike!
7. She hates to discipline Chase. She would get after him 90 times a day for jumping on her dog Maxwell, but she would never put him in "Uh Oh time." She hates to be the bad guy!
8. She's bi-polar!!
9. She loves to read as much as I do. Recently we got a stack of books from a neighbor who introduced us to the "Twilight" series. Since we value her opinion of books, we dove in right away. After an hour or so I went into Pam's room and asked her what her book was about. "Terrorism," she said in a bored tone, "you?" "Cancer," I said. Talk about uplifting!! Needless to say, we'll take book recommendations from someone else from now on!
10. In the end she actually said, OUT LOUD, that she "didn't mind" it down in Manti!! I finally know why Rawlin was so giddy when he heard me say those exact words!!
If I were to write down EVERYTHING we love about Pam I would never finish this blog. Between laughing and crying so hard thinking about this past year, I am having problems seeing the screen. Not to mention Pam's lovable qualities are endless! ;) I know that's a little dramatic, but she is honestly the most selfless person I know. Between the hospital stays and all the screaming I don't think I would have come out of this experience sane if it weren't for her. Pam, words will never be able to express how much I love you, and appreciate your sacrifice for me and my family. You are my "partner" and my best friend. I love you so much. Thank you
1 comments:
Too bad I read this after I did my makeup! Thankyou for those things that you said. I do consider myself a failure about teaching you guys to rinse your dishes. And...now I have Ham It Up in my head!! Looking back on all that has happened, I can say I would do it again in a heartbeat! I'm so glad that I made the choice to move there. You guys will always be my Partner and my Kids! Love and miss you guys!
P.S. Don't you EVER talk about my flaws like that again!!! Oops, sorry...that's just the down side of the Bi-Polar! :)
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