Love Is.
For Jeremy.
Love is meeting him at age 21 and knowing it’s game over
It’s knowing nothing about hockey but going to watch him play every week
It’s cooking dinner for him
It’s him carrying me to bed
It’s bringing him coffee in bed in the mornings
It’s me not caring what my wedding dress looked like, just knowing that I wanted him to be mine
Love is having a beautiful baby girl
It’s holding that baby girl so carefully, taking baby steps, tears streaming down his face, to show her to our waiting family
It’s taking shifts bouncing a swaddled colicky baby
It’s leaky boobs, messy hair, baby puke, exhausting days and sleepless nights
It’s him taking care of and protecting his girls
Love is finding Jesus and being baptized together
Love is him getting laid off and having to collect unemployment while we have a daughter and a mortgage to take care of and not having money and playing games together and living a simple life and enjoying it anyway
Love is starting a business with $500 in the bank
Love is when I started getting sick and the doctors couldn’t figure out a diagnosis
It’s learning how to cook for me to eat gluten free, corn free and dairy free
It’s helping me get healthy again
It’s being my biggest fan during races
It’s him hating to run but running races with me anyway
Love is me quitting a job to work for his successful business. Our business.
It’s being a team in life
Love is being with me when they gave us the breast cancer diagnosis
Love is him documenting with beautiful photos what my body looked like before
Love is him staying with me until they took me back to surgery
Love is being able to look at him and not feel afraid when they told us it got into my lymph nodes
Love is him spending the night at the hospital with me after the double mastectomy
Love is making sure I was comfortable at home
Love is him giving me a shower, being careful of the drains and tubes that stuck out of my mangled body
Love is letting me cry and lose my shit the first time I saw the place where my breasts use to be
Love is shaving my head for me and telling me I was going to rock it
Love is shaving his head too
Love is going to my first chemo appointment with me
Love is crying with me the day all the little hairs on my head fell out
Love is letting me fall asleep on him early in the evenings
Love is him making me feel beautiful bald, sick from chemo, with no breasts, eyelashes, or eyebrows
Love is him helping me find my way back to me
Love is me spending the rest of my life making him feel as totally known and loved as he has loved me
Your Husband is a wonderful, beautiful, amazing soul. And this is beautifully documented. Jeremy has been your rock. A true blessing to you and Liv and to us all.
Oh, Tahnee, this was so touching and beautiful. Made me cry! Jeremy is as lucky to have and love you as you are him. What a blessing love is! *hugs*
That’s what LOVE is – and I am SO HAPPY you have it! Amazing Words – Amazing Couple – Happily, Ever After!
Amazing. You two are amazing.
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What a wonderful documentation. What an amazing family you have especially such a great man. We are so lucky to have them in our lives. Your words were so wonderfully put. Your are so blessed! GOD IS GREAT
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Tahnee, that was so beautifully written. I still think you should write your own book some day. It made me cry, laugh and feel good . Love all of you so much!!!!
Wow, I have tears running down my face. That is such a powerful picture of love. I am so thankful that you have someone like that by your side. I am so glad you don’t take that for granted, it is a gift !
I love you sweet friend, I’m sorry I haven’t been around for you during this time in person, but I have been on my knees for you and your beautiful family continually. Love you!