Rob and I have been stressed (have I mentioned this?). We have a good life, and we enjoy it, but it's non-stop. Especially October - anyone else feel like October will never end?!
Yesterday we got home for the day around 5:30 p.m. Sundays, now sacred family time, are endangered by Stress. It's often nice to set Sunday aside as non-homework, non-work time, but sometimes we let work creep into Sunday afternoons or evenings. Because there's too much to do.
But yesterday, neither of us wanted to do anything but nothing. My form of nothing is reading in bed for half an hour and then taking a nap. Rob's form of nothing is watching a sappy movie. He watched August Rush and I read and took a nap. It was great that we both got what we needed out of a restful Sunday evening.
We put the kids to bed and we were still feeling unmotivated to do anything worthwhile. So I sat down at the computer and brought up songs I'd been thinking about on youtube. Once I'd run out of songs I wanted to listen to, I started clicking on suggested songs on the right side of the screen. Rob sat beside me and we watched obscure music videos (sorry for the redundancy. Clearly all music videos are obscure).
On the last one, Just Say Yes by Snow Patrol, he took my hand and said, "Come dance with me." I was emotionally tired. I was kinda grumpy. I didn't want to dance. I groaned and whined. Less than 30 seconds later, after I fell in love with my husband all over again, I said, "I was wrong. I want to dance with you." He smiled and said, "I thought you might." We grinned from ear to ear. We tore up that living room. For a full 3 minutes and 30 seconds, nothing else existed besides me and my husband and that music.
It occurred to me once again, that THAT is why I married Rob. He's like happiness in a box. He can dance. (MAN, can he dance.) He's funny. He can make me laugh so hard. He can do fun voices and accents. He'll do just about anything to make someone smile. And since I'm something of a special someone to him, he makes me smile all the time.
When life is stressful, it's nice to have some happiness in a box.
3 comments:
I love it! That is really sweet. (And, yes--we feel like our life is non-stop, too. We need a break!)
This is probably the most adorable thing I've read all day. And I've been IMing with Panamanian Pal, so you know it's pretty damn adorable.
That is so SWEET! What a good hubby. It's those little moments in life that you just have to savor. Good luck with the stress...these next two mos are always my most stressful.
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