When I got home from work yesterday I just wanted to crawl back into bed. Don’t worry, I am not upset or depressed. I just wanted to sleep. Why is it when someone says they want to crawl into bed, we sometimes assume they are downtrodden? If I read that first sentence from someone else,…
On the Side of Him
There’s a phrase Brandon uses, “on the side of me” or “on the side of you”, which I never really heard until I started dating him. Many times he has said to me, while talking on the phone, “I wish I was on the side of you right now.” Of course I knew what he…
“I’m Sorry”
I said it too… A few months before my ex husband and I separated, a mother of one of my kids’ friends told me that she and her husband were divorcing. I stood in her living room and said those two or three words – “I’m sorry.” However, part of me could tell she was…
In Case of an Emergency
I sat in the comfortable lobby, filling out the short questionnaire about my medical history, as new age music softly played over the speakers. I was so happy to be in the spa, waiting for my first massage in a while. I needed this relaxation time, badly. I filled out the standard information like my name…
The Unexamined Life
People get married and have kids, that’s what they do. If you’re me anyway. Of course there are many people who do not follow that path, but for me it was a “given”. I planned to do those things from a young age, be a wife and mother. In between those dreams I imagined being…
My Love
He comes into the kitchen in his dress pants and button down shirt, clean and fresh, ready for a day of work and meetings and things I can only grasp a little. I hand him a plate of scrambled eggs and bacon and ask, “Do you want a coffee?” I smile at how handsome he…
15 Years and 2 Weeks
Tim and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary two weeks ago, on November 6th. I honored it in part, by being on the internet less that week, so this post is a tad belated. However, I still wanted to put these words out into the universe, in my space here. I love you, so much,…
Keeping The Spark Alive…
This guy has been off adventuring in Alaska. I mean, WOW, that’s a big fish right? (it’s a Halibut, by the way so go ahead, try to make your own, just for the “halibut” pun… I’ll wait…) I (and the kids and the puppy) have missed him A LOT. I am SO glad…
What a Wedding it Was!
When I was 16 years old my oldest brother and his wife had their first baby. My parents and I sat in the waiting room of the hospital that July evening, watching Johnny Carson (it was his last year to host The Tonight Show) waiting and waiting for her to be born. I was elated…
Be Mine
“I miss you… will you be my Valentine?” Tim sent me these words on Wednesday of this week, via text, as he waited in an airport far away to board a plane and come home to me, to us. I am not completely sure what about them made me begin to cry almost instantly after…