Husbands...a lot of us blogging gals have them...but we rarely ever really sit and post just about them and what they do! Yes, we mention little things they do for us and our kids, maybe mention a date night or two, or a little sweet something, but we never really just talk about them and who they are. As I have started looking back at my first year of blogging talking about our fertility journey, the birth of our twins and their first year of life, I realized that the most important man in my life, my partner, my best friend and the father of my amazing miracles is not mentioned all that often. Why is that? He is just as much a part of this life as I am. I do not really have an answer for that, so I decided that the time has come! Today is the day for my readers to get to know Sean a.k.a. Big Pappa! Sean was born in a small town outside Beaumont, Texas in 1977. His Dad got a job in Houston, so his parents and younger brother Ryan left Beaumont and headed to H-ton when Sean was very young. He played high school football and is a serious sports fanatic!!! Over the years as he was growing up, he was involved in all sports and was extremely accident pron. He has been hit by car, suffered a head injury, has had over an hundred stitches at one time in his arm, and has been life flighted. He put his parents through some serious stress during those years! He works as an Operator for a pipeline company and works shift work. He loves to play golf, watch any type of sport on ESPN, and can tell you stats on any football team and most players from years before he was even born. I joke with him all of the time, about if he had a job telling stats for football from 50 years ago, we would be rich!!! NO DOUBT! He loves the water and would be on the water all of the time if he had his way. Sean and I met in 2001, began dating serious within just a few weeks and knew right away that we were meant for each other. After asking permission from both of my parents, Sean asked me marry him on June 1, 2002 and we were married June 2003.
In 2005, we began our struggle to start a family and Sean was the most amazing support system I could have ever asked for. Even though he was struggling emotionally just as I was, he always let my emotions and sadness come first. After discovering that we were expecting twins, we had to decide what our future would hold financially and with my job. Neither of us wanted to put the twins in daycare if we absolutely didn't have to. After long discussions, planning and realizing what all we would be sacrificing, we decided that we would BOTH stay home with them part time. Working a shift work schedule consists of different weekly shifts, a day shift, graveyards and long change. So the plan was that I would stay home with them while he was working and on his days off and long change he would stay home with him. COMPLETELY 100% his idea and he was so thrilled to do it. I will admit, before the twins were born, I was a little worried about how long it would last and if it would truly make him happy to sacrifice HIS time off (tee time) to stay home with two babies. But after they arrived and seeing him with them, I knew right away this was the perfect set up for us!!! We get the best of both worlds and I cannot imagine it any other way. It's a sweet deal..really! He has been amazing and is the most involved father that I know. It has been such a blessing and he has never once complained that he gave up his golf days, his guy time, and time to relax to stay home with the twins. Now they are in school 2 days a week and he almost doesn't know what to do with himself and he misses them the time they are away! I know a lot of men that have no desire to be a SAHD (stay at home dad) and would never even consider sacrificing "their" time and that works for some people. But being PTSAHP (part time stay at home parents) works beautifully for us. We have both formed bonds with our babies that no money could ever replace. And I love my husband more now than I ever have. Babe, I may not say this often enough, but you will never know how thankful I am to have you and the bond you share with our children makes me fall in love with you all over again everyday!
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