This is not the post I want to do about how MaryAnn and I got together. I just wanted to put record my Mothers' Day tribute from Facebook here. I love and honor the mothers in my life:

"I didn't post anything on Mothers' Day because it was just plain busy helping with dinner and all. Mary Ann and I had a fun time cooking for and feeding our combined children, who are the best children because they are blessed with the best mothers possible. I just want to say that, because of the women in my life, I am the most blessed man in the world....ever!. I have the most awesome wife who is an amazing mother to her children and puts up with me and my children as she continues to increase her uplifting and wonderful influence on us (I love her SO MUCH, but more on her later). I have, on the 'other side' the most amazing mother to my children and who still looks after them and whom I know has helped with securing some of the miracles that have happened to me since her passing. I am very thankful to her and love her very much. I have the most amazing mother who raised me (and my dad) to honor and cherish women and treat them with equality and respect, which is what real men do. I have the most amazing sisters and female relations, many of whom are the most wonderful mothers on earth. They all never cease to amaze me. I want to add that MaryAnn Furse is truly amazing in so many ways. She possesses a rare combination of traits and abilities that make life most interesting, educational, fun and adventurous. Sometimes mis-judged, un-appreciated, or treated as less than the Angel from Heaven that she is (which brings out the meaner-than-hell German Shepherd in me), she teaches me about forgiveness and patience...or how an angel can become very honest and dangerous when it is necessary. Often spontaneous, she teaches me about how to have fun and appreciate my surroundings and the blessings of this life. Always compassionate, she un-intentionally schools me about loving God's children when I thought I was so good at it. Always loving, she pulls me straight out of the hell of discouragement, listens to my silliest concerns, and heals my deepest wounds in a moment. She is the greatest teacher (many can attest to that)! I could go on and on and on. She is my Hero and my Angel. I consider myself, honestly, the most blessed man on the face of the Earth to be married to her. I LOVE YOU MaryAnn Furse!!!! THANK YOU for being my friend, my partner and my wife."