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"One of the qualities I love most about Rex is his attention to detail. You want a floor cleaned? By the end of his job you&amp;#039;ll not only be able to eat off of it but the kids will have the best sock skating rink in Los Angeles. While sliding on a gleaming kitchen floor can be more wonderful than a pot of Yuban on a crisp winter morning, it&amp;#039;s never a great idea to slide past the words of appreciation. In my case, since Rex is a man of few words, I&amp;#039;ve found that actions speak loudest. And we&amp;#039;re not just talking about actions that involve me being naked. (Though honestly, that&amp;#039;s one of Rex&amp;#039;s favorite thank you&amp;#039;s.) Another gesture Rex appreciates is a nice meal. It doesn&amp;#039;t have to be fancy, but if the plate is warmed and the tomatoes aren&amp;#039;t mushier than the lyrics to a Celine Dion ballad, it&amp;#039;s pretty much a surefire win. Cooking doesn&amp;#039;t come naturally to me, but rather than plop food and inhale quicker than an asthmatic in a hookah bar, I&amp;#039;m making it a point to slow down and create meals with intention. Take last night&amp;#039;s fare: Pasta and Brussel sprouts. I sliced them up and set the steamer timer for twenty minutes. After an enthusiastic thumbs up from the kidlets, I added some olive oil and pepper/salt. I then saut\u00E9ed some garlic to fancy up the store-bought spaghetti sauce. Add the stalk to the plate and what resulted was one pretty little food creation. Who says a man doesn&amp;#039;t appreciate flowers?! (Only my husband could make a pair of ghost pajamas and his wife&amp;#039;s dorky floral food sexy. Well, at least I think he&amp;#039;s sexy. I&amp;#039;m quite certain yours would rock it also!) I&amp;#039;m not going to get an advance to write a &amp;quot;My So Called Sex Life Cook Book: Tales of Steamy Balls,&amp;quot; but my dinner made Rex smile, which in turn made me smile. Add in his twinkling Italian eyes and that&amp;#039;s all the motivation I need to keep on keeping on with the small details that make his heart sing. (If only I had presented that meal sans clothing. Then there&amp;#039;d be more than one long stalk in the room, eh?) As Alison Bowman&amp;#039;s Project Happily Ever After often points out, it doesn&amp;#039;t take a lot to make your spouse&amp;#039;s day. And even more to the point, in making someone else happy, so often it&amp;#039;s you who gains the benefits. What are the little things your spouse does that make you happy? If you haven&amp;#039;t done something nice for your better half in a while, it&amp;#039;s not too late to start! Who wants to do something every day for a week and see what the results are? A nice meal... a pack of their favorite gum... a homemade cake bought at the 99Cent store... last minute sex just because... it doesn&amp;#039;t have to be fancy... just fun and from the heart! So... you want to play? I&amp;#039;ll be the first to sign up in the comment section! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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