Everyone with children should leave them for a day or two just so you can come home and remember how really wonderful they are.
Thanks to family, Tom and I were able to zip away to Columbus for 24 hours to celebrate our fifth anniversary. It’s not like we did much…a massage, dinner, and a movie…but we did it slowly, and on our own terms. No need to think about juggling bedtimes or whether someone is going to expire if they sit in the stroller for five more minutes. We slept in until nearly 8am, which is unheard of in these parts. Met friends for a leisurely breakfast with all adult conversation and then headed home.
Although it was truly wonderful to be gone, I have a theory that your children save up their cuteness for your return. We took a first-time outing to the community park with tricycles in tow. Because of our gravel drive, Neko hasn’t logged as much bike time as her peers, but she was quickly making up for the lost time. A perfect day for it, both kids had a ball. We practically had to drag Neko away.
After putting an extra scrumptious Shep to bed, Neko sat Tom and I down to tell us “stories.” This is where she puts on a play with her Playmobil sets. The storylines seem to have similar threads, but always wander in new directions. It’s so exciting to see her imagination just exploding. We would have documented, but the video camera batteries were dead. I have renewed my vow to keep them charged at all times.
All this good stuff makes me almost forget that in a span of ten minutes this evening Otto threw up twice on the floor the most horrific smelling stuff I’ve been exposed to in some time and I discovered that my credit card info has been stolen, and I will now have to spend days trying to straighten out a zillion things thanks to some idiot who has decided I should foot the bill for their anal pornography fetish.
But really, that’s just small stuff. For the most part, it’s all really, really good.