Recipe for Thoughtfulness.

1) Persuade a flight attendant that you must get on the earlier flight (despite the fact she's already turned 5 passengers away) because you want to see your kids before they go to bed.

2) Pick up pink roses for your wife at the airport.

3) Offer to bring home dinner if needed.

4) Help wife move a piece of furniture down three flights of stairs.

5) Stay up late and listen to said wife talk ad nauseum about her week and be peppered with questions about yours.

6) Smile through jet-lagged delirium as your excited children jump in your bed early the next morning.

7) Make scrambled eggs and smoothies for said children.

8) Do dishes for grateful wife.

9) Allow wife to take a picture of one's thoughtfulness for her blog.

10) Go to work to provide more scrambled eggs and smoothies for the lucky family.