My Best Friend *Warning!!! This is mushy!!!*

Evens is my best friend.  I am lucky in my life to have a few best friends, one being my cousin, 2 being my high-school friends, and the other being my mother.  But Evens is my best friend.  I knew it the moment we shared our deepest, truest secrets to each other while lying on a blanket in a field.  We hadn't known each other very long, but on that night, while watching the beautiful stars, we felt so peaceful and knew that we could tell each other anything and it wouldn't change a thing.  So I did.  I unloaded my life history on him.  And while it was a huge relief for me, some small part of me waited for him to say "ok, this is way too much.  You've got a lot of baggage that I don't have the energy to deal with.  I'm out of here."  But he didn't.  He didn't even blink.  He let me unload, cry, unload some more, and then held me.  I knew in that moment that I would love him forever, and 6 years later I still feel the same way.  He has always worked so hard.  When we first met he was working 2 jobs at almost 80 hours a week.  And he really hasn't slowed down since.  A 60-hour work week is normal to him, and he never complains.  Ever.  With all the demands on him at work, he comes home and does everything here required of him, and more often not required of him, without ever complaining.  I have often wished that I could trade him places; sometimes I feel that he'd make a better stay-at-home parent than I do.  But the truth?  The truth is that I don't envy him in the least.  He gets up hours before I do, heads to work in the dark and 8 months of the year in the freezing cold, works hard all day long, gets crap piled and piled and piled on him, then comes home (6 months of the year he leaves and comes home from work in the dark) and cleans, or helps me with dinner, or works on one of his thousands of projects, and spends some time with the girls before they are off to bed.  He's lucky if he gets 6 hours of sleep.  I don't envy him in the least.  I used to, but not anymore.  I get to spend all day with my beautiful daughters.  Sure, my life sucks sometimes, but it's not even close to how difficult Evens's is.  So babe, thank you.  Thank you for working so, so hard to make sure your family is secure.  So that we can have everything we need.  So that I can stay home with our beautiful daughters.  I love you, and I always will.  You truly are my best friend.  BILY