February 2nd, 2010 | Author: admin
Sorry for my lack of posts, I have been under the weather….. napping/ crashing a lot thinking about “dating love”‘ and “married for 5 1/2 years love”.
Oh, yes to be engaged all the world is in Technicolor, the sun was brighter, birds sang in the trees and it’s kind of like Sleeping Beauty singing some happy Disney song in the forest. There wasn’t a care in the world and the weekend was an endless list of date opportunities, gifts, inside jokes and countless long phone conversations, e-mails and notes. When dating, most of the time I looked nice, smelled nice and had a 24/7 smile. It’s a great time to be young and unabashedly blissful, in love.
This weekend was “real love”. Real love gives the greatest gifts.. included taking care of a toddler for 3 hours in the middle of the day so I can nothing but nap. It’s crazy, messy hair, no make up and most conversations with me piled under covers asking for more tissues. Real love is me looking and feeling like I was run over by a dump truck and Troy asking, “Maybe you need more Tylenol?!” The greatest gifts theses days are making your meals, cleaning up after a messy toddler, doing laundry and smothering your wife in Vick’s Vapor Rub, while she wears about 5 layers of mismatching clothes/ sweats. Real loves mean you then get to sleep next to very smelly Vick’s Vapor Rub wife, who then snores loudly in your ear all night because she can’t breath through her nose. Real love doesn’t always look, sound or dress for very nicely, but it only gets sweeter with time. Thanks for taking care of me Hon!!
Love- b
You would think after all that I had the plaque, but was just the winter flu, congestion, cough, a fever and all around feeling crummy. I think I’ll survive:)
pic taken in end of ’08 hiking into the Grand Canyon.. I called it the “death hike” because that’s how I felt hiking out
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