mother's day was great. in the past this (and my
birthday/our anniversary) has been a huge source of division between
david and i. i came from a home where every celebration was over the top
and you felt especially special on those days. well david, coming from a
home that was significantly more low key, naturally struggled to live
up to the precedent set by my family when we got married. this year and
the immediate past two mother's days david has hit in on the head. he
and augustine both have figured out my "language" i think. augustine
made a coupon book for very meaningful things to be like "this coupon
entitles you to sleep in more" or "helping you clean the house on
sunday." i got all choked up and snuggled into his lions man.
for
the past 4-5 months now i have tried to more closely observe Sabbath on
sundays. the main thing is that we watch no television and i do no
cleaning. well i mean if the dog pees on the floor obviously im going to
clean that up, but beyond that sort of thing, nada. this sounded like a
great idea until i quickly realized how trashed the house gets even
after just one day of passivity. monday we host a dinner and bible study
for a dozen or so people so O M G has mondays become a source of dread
for me. not only do i get back to my job but i have to clean a wrecked
house and cook at least part of a meal (we potluck for dinner). oy vey
so many times i've wanted to just chuck the idea of not cleaning on
sundays but umm that is sort of the point of the exercise. so augustine
expressing his understanding of that situation and offering a coupon to
help clean on sundays, oh dang i cried!
david got me a nook
color for mother's day, let me sleep in on saturday, and we all went out
to dinner. it was a great, relaxing weekend. obviously the children
have commendered the nook already, playing games on it and watching
netflix. no bigs, i still have 4-6 physical books checked out from the
library so i don't NEED digital books just yet. still, i am SO EXCITED
about being able to say, go camping and take all of my books with me and
not have to hermione granger it all the time. this is my own personal
undetectable extension charm i guess
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