Reason #1 – She Doesn’t Make Me Eat Beets
I hate beets. And I don’t just hate them. I HATE THEM! I HATE THEM! I HATE THEM! I HATE THEM! And here’s what’s weird. I don’t actually know if I hate them, I just think I hate them. They scare the...
View ArticleReason #2 – She Sits at the Computer and Giggles With Me
We sat down to make this super cheesy Pinterest heart thing with multiple pictures, and I started morphing our silliest photo to make ourselves look absolutely ridiculous. She hated it, but just...
View ArticleReason #3 – She Laughs *With* Me
She has a small head. I have a freakishly huge head. And I had longish hair. She wanted me to try on one of the ten baseball caps I have sitting on my hat rack. She’d never seen me in my hat. I got all...
View ArticleReason #4 – She Has the Best Pouty Lip
A truly beautiful woman knows how to use her pouty lip. I really believe that. And the Farmer’s Daughter definitely knows how to use hers. Yesterday I coerced the Farmer’s Daughter into using her fresh...
View ArticleReason #5 – She Helps Me Make Excuses
She helps me make excuses so that I don’t get low self esteem about things like my monstrously huge thumbs. And that’s just one more reason I love the Farmer’s Daughter Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
View ArticleReason #6 – She’s Lettin’ Me Be a Harley Man
I’ve always wanted to get a motorcycle. And ever since I got hooked on Sons of Anarchy, nothing but a Harley will do. And she hasn’t just said it was okay, she told me to go for it and promised to be...
View ArticleReason #7 – She Doesn’t Think I’m Ugly in the Mornings
I get some of the world’s worst bed head going on in the mornings. And she still thinks I’m hot. Er, at least she doesn’t think I’m ugly. And I’ll take that when I’m looking like this. Continue...
View ArticleReason #8 – She *Thinks* She’s the Boss
We play this little game where we try to prove to each other that we’re the boss in our relationship. It’s cute, really. She actually thinks she is sometimes. And that’s just one reason I love the...
View ArticleReason #9 – She Can Drink Me Under the Table
To know me in a certain social circle is to know that I am a serious lightweight when it comes to alcohol. Sometimes a single shot or a single glass of wine will get me singing Carol of the Bells to...
View ArticleReason #10 – She Goes on Imaginary Elephant Rides with Me
The Farmer’s Daughter and I find ourselves sucked into all sorts of silly make-believe situations. How it happens, we still don’t know. It just happens. Sometimes they just end in laughter. Sometimes...
View ArticleReason #11 – She Holds My Hand in the Car
She holds my hand in the car. And I love it. Until our hands get all hot and sweaty, then we take a good 10-30 second break while we both pretend we’ve got better reasons to release our hand hold. Of...
View ArticleReason #12 – She’s just so dang pretty when she sleeps.
She’s just so dang pretty when she sleeps. Anything else I write about it will just sound creepy, so just take my word for it. Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
View ArticleReason #13 – She Gets Weird with Me on Texts
We’re weird in real life, but we’re also weird on text. And I love that about the Farmer’s Daughter. I mean, who says you have to be serious all the time or even a majority of the time? And that’s just...
View ArticleReason #14 – She’s Always So Dang Positive About the Outcome
Today on my blog I told you all about a list of random tough things that have sideswiped me in the last month. Every time I brought up any of them, she listened, encouraged me, empathized, and told me...
View ArticleReason #15 – We Can Be Occasional Butts to Each Other
The other day I bit the end off of a granola bar. The Farmer’s Daughter eyeballed my snack longingly and piped in, “oooh, I want a bite of that!” “Sure babe, feel free. I didn’t get this granola bar...
View ArticleReason #16 – I Can Trust Her
The Farmer’s Daughter is out dancing tonight with some of her male friends. It’ll be hot and sweaty and all sorts of fun. And I love that I can trust her fully to do stuff like that. And that she can...
View ArticleReason #17 – The Pictures
There are times almost every week when we don’t get to see each other for several days. When I get to missing her, I ask her to send me a pic of whatever she’s doing at the moment. She always does, and...
View ArticleReason #18 – Noah Loves Playing with Her
As a single dad, I know what it’s like to date someone that my kid doesn’t care that much for. They never last long. After all, my kid is half of the equation. And Noah is all about the play. He loves...
View ArticleReason #19 – She Loves Getting Her Heart Pumping
The Farmer’s Daughter is very similar to me. She loves exercise. She also loves going with me to the store and loading up on candy that we can down while we watch an overly intense movie together....
View ArticleReason #20 – She’s Got a Mean Swing
And when I say mean swing, I mean that she has a MEAN swing. When we go to the batting cages, she has no trouble stepping into the mega-fast-knock-your-head-off speed pitching cage, and she hits a...
View ArticleReason #21 – She Fights For It
The Farmer’s Daughter and I recently went through our first real skirmish. Things were tense for a couple of weeks. We were trying to be nice and hold it together but we were bickering, constantly....
View ArticleReason #22 – She Laughs Instead of Stresses
I’ve got a funny blog post going about this tonight, but it made me love the Farmer’s Daughter all the more, so I wanted to post this right now. On Sunday I shared a pic of us at the Pride Parade. What...
View ArticleReason #23 – She’s a Worthy Tennis Socks Opponent
The Farmer’s Daughter and I have this fun game we play when we’re putting away my laundry. One of us stands in front of the dresser with a tennis racquet, and the other person starts lobbing mated...
View ArticleReason #24 – Callepittars
Umm… She calls caterpillars “callepittars.” And no matter how hard she tries to say it right, it comes out “callepittars.” And that’s just one more reason I love the Farmer’s Daughter. Dan Pearce,...
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