I think my beautiful wife is Superhuman

Have you ever wonder if your spouse has super powers? I am past the wondering part, I know that my wife has super powers. She could put Wonder woman away. For example please see http://aubreyannie.blogspot.com for her modest explanation of her surgery, power outage mayhem, Christmas prep, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Then please read the following to see what really happened. Only someone with super powers could go through this, I was just hanging on for the ride.

Surgery-- Not only did she have surgery she had at least two very painful occurrences of twisting of the cyst that she had. First is Denver on the 4th of July when she ended up in the emergency room and then another time here and she ended up spending the afternoon in a Dr's office figuring out what the problem might be. I am sure that there were more uncomfortable times but those are the two major ones. Then the surgery. Drs. And Nurses are casually blunt about surgery. **Warning blunt and not for someone with a weak stomach** e.g. "Ok, we will cut you open, then pull out your ovaries, find and slice off the cyst, put everything back in place and the sew you back up." The actually surgery went as good as planned. Cyst removed and recovery started. They tried everything but the way that her body reacted to being invaded and trying to put itself back together again was worse then the surgery. Nausea set in on the way up to her hospital room. They were able to settle her stomach some through medicine via IV enough for her to rest a little and eat and drink some. Each time she would try and get up the nausea would come back. The day after she got enough strength and we felt that the recovery would be more comfortable at home, so we went home. After she ate dinner she decided to get in bed and rest, but that did not happen. Pain killers and two different nausea meds were not doing the trick. Days without rest and nights without rest until the surgeon, drs, and nurses decided to stop all drugs, drink ginger tea (to clam the stomach) and rest. It did the trick, she was finally able to sleep through the night and start eating. So let me put my perspective on it. After major invasive surgery my wife, lets call her superwomen, does not rely on medications for the pain or for the nausea. She just deals with it. During this time she still managers to coordinate many different things that were going on in her home, with friends and with church. Maybe ginger is her kryptonite?

Power outage-- Ok, big storm, lots and lots of wind, trees falling down, etc... Our power went out in the middle of the night on Thursday night. Our daughter came into our bed and at that point now one got much sleep at all. Friday I came into work and my super human wife entertained the kids all day with no electricity, fed them and continued to go on even without power. That night we all slept by fire to keep warm. The next morning at about 6:30 am our power came back on. When we started to get up, the phone started to ring, people came to the door. Many of our friends were still without power. Rather then saying, I am sorry I hope your power comes on soon, my wife said "Come on over, we have power, do you want breakfast?" Families started to pour in. I am not sure how many people Aubrey made breakfast and lunch for that day, but I know that she fed 16 for dinner, then another 7 came for after dinner activities. 16 people stayed the night in our 3 bedroom apartment. Again she fed them for breakfast. As power came on for people they started to leave. Are good friends stayed with us until Tuesday night when their power finally came back on. Also on Monday 3 friends showed up from Bend, OR. That same evening/night she prepared a huge thanksgiving type feast for us, two other families and another friend. During all of this our home stayed picked up and clean. I don't think there is a hostess as a super hero, but my wife deserves those honors. (Please see hotess in the dictionary, you will find my wife's picture.)

Christmas prep-- My sometime 8 hrs in the office to not compare to the 24/7 career of my wife. Thank you cards, christmas cards, presents for family, friends, primary teachers, and primary children, holiday activities, fudge, sugar cookies, cinnamon rolls, and peperiment bark, shopping for meals and treats, all happened during the aforementioned activities. Are you serious? Please no questions, my wife is superhuman.

Christmas Eve-- Although things changed at the last minute and we switched our Christmas feast from Eve to actual day, she still managed to make a wonderful Christmas Eve feast of Raspberry Glazed Pork Chops.

Christmas Day-- With the last minute changes our friend had to go to the hopsital, so plans were changed again. Best of all the feast that she made for our small family or four, was quickly motified for our friends family because they had just got out of the hospital and did not have dinner ready so my wife after talking to them on the phone when they got out of the hospital that is five minutes away and letting them know that they could eat with us, she had the table set for them and when they came to pick up there son insisted that they eat with us. Do superhumans perform miracles?, because my wife did.

I know know what it is like to live with and have a superhuman as a wife. Power, courage, boldness, meekness, pure love, charity, optimism, without guile are a few of the laundry list of charateristics that I love about my wife.