Saturday, April 28, 2007

reconnection

It is hard, very hard, to have a husband that travels so much. I thought it would be an inconvenience. I was wrong. It is way more than an inconvenience. I had no idea that there would be a need to actively work so hard at staying connected to feel a part of each others life. We haven't been doing that, but realize now that we must. Lordy.

Nice day today. Baseball was cancelled due to overnight rain. The kids played over at a friends' house so DH and I could eat lunch together. I spied a bottle of wine at the restaurant that I NEEDED to buy two of to take to friends K and M. (It was You Bet Shiraz). By the way, it was actually very decent. And while it was 14.95 to drink a bottle with dinner in the restaurant, I could take home a bottle for 6.00. Go figure.
DH and I walked in the colonial area for a while to try to reconnect. Back home, I took the wine to K&B, where we finished it up on their deck then took a walk to the park. I actually made a semi-nice dinner (which the kids didn't like, but noodles with butter and cheese sufficed). Afterwards, we played a game together then DH and I watched the Bourne Identity (I fell asleep at the end).

That is the kind of day we've been missing. We MUST make some sacrifices in other parts of our lives so we can have more of those. They are much more important than you'd think.

Here's a photo of the three amigos and their tattoos (taken at yet another wild neighborhood party on Friday night)

2 comments:

J said...

I've found we have to work hard on keeping the connection when DH has his bad schedules at work. He's on that nasty schedule now - and even when he was home physically yesterday, he was dealing with patient stuff, etc. Sigh.

Your day sounds wonderful - I hope you have more of them! Love the group tattoos.

Ruthie said...

Isn't it ridiculous when you see a bottle of wine at a restaurant for $30 and you see it at the store for $8?

My goodness.

You all have such hip tattoos!