#mr. saff

[saffreelove]

Awww

Mr. Saff: *whips the door open and pops his head in* Hey honey. Me: Hey what-y? Mr. Saff: *big, goofy smile on his face* Guess what! Me: Wait, is this a good 'guess what'? Or a shitty 'guess what'? Mr. Saff: I love you. *ducks out of the room* Me: *shouting* Wait, was that really what you came to say? Mr. Saff: *shouting from the other room* Yup!

[saffreelove]

My Saffy-called life

Y'all. I need to share my distress with you. Mr. Saff went and got his hair cut today. Side note: we have the same hairstylist and she kicks ass. When he got home I reminded him to trim his beard as it always looks so much bushier after a haircut. Mr. Saff: "Nah. I think I'll grow it out some more." Me: *wat* Mr. Saff: "Yeah, get it all mountain man like." Mr. Saff seems to forget, on a regular basis, that his beard simply doesn't grow that way. I reminded him of this fact. Mr. Saff: "Oh, yeah, you're right." Once the kids are in bed, he heads to our bathroom while I lie down in bed. I hear the clippers turn on. I am in no way worried. He's just trimming his beard, as I told him to do. I hear our youngest wake up for her 'I just went to sleep, but I resisted peeing before bed, so now I really have to pee, but I'm half asleep and cranky' pee. As I start to head towards her room, I pass our open bathroom doors, glance in, and stop. Me: "What did you do?" Mr. Saff: "What? Oh, what do you think?" Me: *disturbed and wondering why he's allowed to have clipper privileges* says as much to him He had buzzed his lower cheeks/jaw, so that he now had a big, bushy goatee and moustache. He thought it was funny, fucker couldn't stop laughing about the goatee and my reaction. My reaction was slight horror. He finally calms down enough to take a breath. Mr. Saff: "Don't worry, baby. I'll fix it." I move on to pee the kid and get her snuggled back into her bed. I come back to our room, already knowing there was no real fixing it. To 'fix it', he has now given himself the exact same facial hair look he had when I met him when he was 18 years old. A close trimmed goatee with no moustache. That was 17 years ago. What the fuck. He looks like a kid. No offense to 18 year olds, but come on. I'm married to a 35 year old. Him looking so very young is freaking the shit outta of me. I miss his beard. Tl;dr: my idiot husband shaved his beard and gave himself a goatee, now he looks like he an 18 year old from early 2000. @mycapt-ohcapt I tagged you for moral support.

[saffreelove]

I have to share

Of course I have to share, are you kidding me?

So, Mr. Saff took our girls hiking yesterday. They were all gone for four hours. It was glorious and at the same time I felt like I wasted it since I spent a large portion of the time thinking “Oh my god, they’re gonna be home soon! What should I do? What should I do? Something great, something self-care.” I finally opened up my fic only to stare at it for ~2 hours while my brain did the above freak-out on a loop, only to actually get some writing done 5 minutes before they got home. Yup. (Then I stayed up till midnight writing what I wanted to write earlier in the day) Anyway. This share is not really about that. Ah ha, fooled you, didn’t I?

When they got home from the hike, they were all three talking about how the youngest had chosen the wrong skirt to wear for the hike(our kids pick out their own clothes on most days). How it didn’t have enough range of motion and was so restrictive that she couldn’t even ride on Mr. Saff’s shoulders. I thought it odd, but really didn’t dwell on it. Cut to an hour later, we are in the kitchen getting ready to plate up some dinner, when the skirt issue comes back into conversation. So, I ask MiniSaff (she’s 3) to show me how wide she could make her legs while standing. It really was very restrictive. But the thing was, from the outside the skirt didn’t look THAT restrictive. In fact, it wasn’t even pulled taut. So, I kneel down, lift up her skirt, discover that it has shorts underneath (most do) and that the is only utilizing one of the holes. She had both legs in one of the shorts holes. So, I fix the skirt/short situation and then proceed to look at Mr. Saff and LittleSaff a touch incredulously. They had gone on and on about how much of a problem this was during the two-hour hike. Mr. Saff had even picked up the MiniSaff and carried her since she was cranky (she refuses weekend naps). How did they not check this? Y’all, Mr. Saff is a professional engineer who manages and designs multi-million dollar projects every day, he’s a smart guy. I’m still baffled. Please tell me I’m not the only one who has the experiences.

tl;dr MiniSaff went on a 2 hour hike with both legs in one shorts hole and no one noticed until they came home and complained to me about it.