When You're Married to a News Anchor

When you're married to a news anchor there are lots of things to learn.

 When you're married to a news anchor you just may find  yourself nervous watching the news.

When you're married to a news anchor you might borrow his blush when yours runs out.

When you're married to a news anchor you may begin feeling like you are drowning in ties.

When you're married to a news anchor you you will always have a pile of ironing to be finished.

When you're married to a news anchor, and he does the late news, he might have a really hard time falling asleep before 2 or 3 in the morning.

If you're married to a news anchor there is always some kind of news, in some kind of language, on some (or several) kind of device playing throughout the house.  (Which probably accounts for Anderson Cooper showing up in my dreams most nights.)

When you're married to a news anchor you dress your husband every single day and when you watch the news you learn what adventurous outfits were not a very good idea.

When you're married to a news anchor strangers feel like they know him, so they hug him very often.

When you're married to a news anchor you go to Bare Escentuals to have your skin matched to your makeup...both of you.

When you're married to a news anchor there are always many makeup brushes to be washed, hair to be kept, and make up remover to buy.

But when you're married to a news anchor you get to watch your cute man on television every single day.

And when you're married to a news anchor you get to be so proud of him as he impacts the world around him.

And when you're married to a news anchor you feel like a celebrity around town because people give you free things (granted, only if the news anchor is present).

And when you're married to a news anchor you get to live vicariously through him because you just might have studied Broadcast Journalism before they told you your voice was too high pitched and your hair was too big to be a news anchor but you still, secretly really love it.

And when you're married to a news anchor you're never quite sure if your husband has been in the line of fire during the day, and he usually doesn't tell you so you don't freak out.

So, I must say, being married to a news anchor is pretty great.  

I wouldn't want be married to anything else.