This was a good weekend.
I think it was the first weekend in who knows how long that we both had the entire weekend off and actually just stayed home. No running errands, no theme parks, no trips to the mall or even out to the movies – just a nice, quiet weekend at home together.
And boy was it a nice change of pace! Looking back over the past couple of years, things have always been so busy that any days off we had that coincided always had to be spent doing something, whether it was scouting out vendors for the wedding or vacationing over at Disney or even just going to the mall because one of us needed pants and we wanted to spend the time together by any means necessary. We made it work, but if there was one thing that those times didn’t boast, it was simply time to relax and kick back together, and that got about 1,000x worse during the last six months of Sara’s schooling because her schedule had her working 16-hour days on the weekend to make up for not working during the week. I say, “Uggghhh…” and I didn’t even have to endure it, I only had to observe it and provide emotional support afterwards!
So now that all of the chaos is over, even with the holidays upon us I definitely look forward to more weekends like we just had – the two of us at home, alone, together. I mean, we still did stuff – got the Christmas tree up, as well as a start on the lights outside, made some progress on cleaning up the house, and started organizing our Disney pins from last year – but even more so, we got the chance to just lay around and be lazy, which meant playing a lot of Mario Kart Wii, catching up on some movies, and generally just screwing around. It was nice.
Of course, it’d be easy to focus on the things that didn’t get done – like cleaning the rest of the house or my ever-increasing writing backlog – but we’ll leave working through those ordeals for another day. Sometimes every once in a while you just need to take the time to truly relax.