Winner 2/2/10
Last year my husband ruptured his achillies heel leaving me to take care of him and our 2 preschoolers, then he had to leave his job due to stress and to make ends meet I took on 3 jobs, working 7 days a week for 3 months until he found work. Then he ruptured his OTHER achilles heel and had to leave that job. Luckily by now I had a full time job that covered the main bills, but we got rather into debt. During all this I also studied part time via Massey extramural and managed to maintain an A grade average. Luckily my husband now has a full time job (as do I) and our oldest son has started school. I am still studying, and am so lucky that my husband is 100% behind this and does all the house stuff! I maybe a good wife, but he is a fabulous husband and daddy too... just with bung achilles heels!
Winner 3/2/10
Why am I the good wife??? You ask! Where do i start!!!lol.I have been with my husband for 18 years, married for 9 years. HAVE NOT YET HAD A HONEY MOON HOLIDAY! Have 3 children of various ages that is part of the reason for no honeymoon.
Over the 18 years I have endured infidelity on 1 occasion which I have forgiven and has never been repeated. My husband had a problem with drugs and alcohol which I can now say he has been cleaned up for sometime. As well as my 2 young children (at the time) I took in my husband's nephew 2 times to live with us when he had nowhere to go, I have taken in my sister in-law who has a mental condition and has not been easy to deal with (as well as looking after my 3 kids and husband). At the moment I have my niece living with us as she has no where to live. If I can help, I will help and most of it goes unrecognised by other family members. Eventually life gets easier and we are happy at this time and during the bad there has been the laughs and fun/good times.
What will I do with $1000. Go and have me a grand honeymoon with my husband on our tenth anniversary coming up later this year or might have it now as I reckon it is well deserved.
Winner 4/2/10
I am a great wife because I saved my husband (of 22 years) life! Last year he had a cardiac arrest (his heart stopped beating suddenly) at home one evening, and I performed CPR on him for 15 minutes until the paramedics arrived (the longest 15 minutes of my life). My youngest son, who was 10 at the time, was fantastic, as he talked to the emergency operator on the phone, and let the paramedics in while I continued the CPR. While hubby was in hospital for 2 weeks, and during his recovery,I had to look after our 2 sons, one of whom has a form of autism, by myself, as well as nurturing and loving my hubby back to health. Fortunately he has made a full recovery, and we are very blessed to have him still with us coz he's a great husband and Dad and we love him heaps.
Winner 5/2/10
Im nominating my amazing mum, for putting up with me as a teenager for starters!!! (Karma will ensure my 8 week old baby girl will be as bratty as I was!). My mum is just FANTASTIC! She is my best friend and I couldn't have made it this far in life without her support and guidance. She is so supportive and helps me out with my newborn baby and being there for my husband and I. (even though she broke her wrist in Nov and its still not out of a cast! She doesn't complain, even though shes in a huge amount of pain with it). Also, if it wasnt for my Mums HUGE support over the last year, i wouldn't have been able to loose over 60kg, and therefore wouldnt have been able to get pregnant with my gorgeous baby girl, Mikayla. And its all thanks to her. My mum is the 'BEST Wife' and I think she deserves to win $1000 to spend on herself (as she is the one that usually goes without) for being such a wonderful, loving, amazing person.
Winner 8/2/10
My life has truly been a roller coaster. It started when I was 17 and I had my first daughter. My sister (if I call her that) slept with my husband. Family is very important to me therefore forgave her. I moved on with my life and meet a wonderful man, very caring and had the same values as me, awesome.
To make sure that my sister couldn't get her grabbing hands on my new man, we left the country we were living in and moved here. Life was wonderful. We have been together for 9 years and have 3 children together, plus 3 children (1 my daughter & his 2 sons) from past relationships. It is just recently that with much pain I have found out that he too has been seeing my sister behind my back (9 yrs in total) what I fool I am. But when you have children want you want doesn't really count. I am trying very hard to deal with my new situation, and yes I will stay with him.But it is so hard when I have to think that he may have fathered her 2 children!! Why you ask? Because I have already gone through the family courts with my older daughter (10 years in total) and I have witness how much pain she has gone through that I am not prepared to do that with my 3 young children. If I was to win I would take myself up to Auckland to watch the annual "Poly Fest" and I would use this time to think about myself (for once) and do something for myself. Life is hard enough without nasty people in it!!!!
Winner 9/2/10
Her life over the last 18 years. She cared for her Father who had cancer worked fultime had 2 teenage children and her parents han no car licence so she drove them everywhere and to doctor and hospital appointments. Grandad passed then my Nana had a stroke Mum and Dad bought a bigger house and cared for her for 6 years until she passed. During this time my brother had a motor bike accident so Mum and Dad spent 6 weeks in Wellington Hospital living in a motel spending days and nights with my brother till he was well enough to travel to Hastings hospital. During this time Dad was made redundant and Mum still worked full time supporting the family. A few years have passed then Mum got sick she damaged the nerves in her back she was out of action for 3 months and Dad cared for her. She has been back fultime at work, I got married labor weekend 2009 and my Dad walked me down the aisle and little did we know he was bleeding from the brain. 3 weeks latter Dad had a brain haemorage x 2 and we were all in Wellington again while he had brain surgery. So since November my Mum has been working and caring for him. Not to mention we could not sell our family bakery which Dad is unable to work in anymore so my husband and I packed it up on the weekend just gone with the help of some close friends and put it all in storage. My Mum needs all the help in the world as she is the hardest worker and most generous person I know and over the last 2 months she has had enormous costs. Pick her!!!
Winner 10/2/10
Wayne is a tetraplegic broke his neck 13 years ago whilst playing rugby. She has stuck by him for all that time and cares for him whilst also holding down a job. And she also saved his life! When being transferred in an ambulance to hospital for treatment once, he actually died in the ambulance Natalie revived him!