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I do not have a T-shirt with just a picture of my wife. But I do happen to have this T-shirt with a picture of our family, featuring the image we used for our New Year's card.
Pictured here in a photo taken in December are (working left to right) me, Liesel holding Satchel, Ivan, and Piper.
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When I ordered the cards, VistaPrint gave me the option to order a T-shirt with the image. The company sent me two shirts, actually, so I gave the other one to Ivan. I love that Ivan is wearing a Dead Kennedy's hoodie.
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I feel like I won the world's greatest lottery. I am blessed with many riches because of meeting and marrying my wife, Liesel. She is an amazing human being: a wonderful mother, wife, partner, and friend. She has given me not only a great marriage but a wonderful family with two kids that I love very much (and now a puppy, too). Our cat Vespers is not pictured.
I hope that I am able to give Liesel and her kids even a single iota of the happiness that she and her kids have given me.
Today, I celebrate Liesel along with all the mothers in the world (including my own mother: Hi Mom!).
Here's one of my favorite pictures of Liesel. Doesn't she look happy?
Happy Mother's Day everyone.
- chris tower - 1305.12 - 10:26