A Good Thing

It's been stressful recently, up until last night we've kind of been going non-stop--for about 8 months really--but esp the past two weeks. I flew in from Ohio two weeks ago and there was a LOT unfinished on our house, but we were hosting a family/close friends wedding open house at our place last Thursday, so that gave us just over a week to finish up a bazillion things.

We managed to get most of our list of to-dos done by sacrificing a lot of sleep and me getting what we think was viral strep throat. Josh's parents came into town Thursday and helped us do all the finishing work and we barely finished things up by the time guests showed up. In fact, we had a leak under the sink for a day so our contractor was there up until minutes before the guests came. Oh, and we passed inspection earlier that day so we were finally able to switch out the ugly, yet required by CA, lights and put our pretty new ones in.

I didn't want to post this one first since it shows my cool wall in the background, but it's the only pic of us together in a while. Better work on my posture some more...

I'll post more pics soon, but what I wanted to say here was something about Josh. We've barely had time to nuture our relationship very much since coming here, but thanks to all of our loads of work the past couple of weeks, we were able to spend hours together while painting, tiling, grouting, painting...and talking. It was so fun to get to catch up and have so much time to just talk. What a wonderful blessing to have to just have hours to chat with the man I love but haven't gotten to really connect with as much as I'd like here.

Last night after all the guests were gone, Josh and I took the girls on a jog when it started down-pouring on us. We ran hard home and came in and got the girls nice and dry and set up with a movie and fruit snacks--a special treat before dinner here. Josh and I showered and got in nice warm, dry clothes and talked about how excited we were to just veg together for the first time in a while. It was a nearly euphoric moment just to have so much work finished and finally some time to just relax together and enjoy our finished home, something we haven't experienced since moving in. It's not totally finished mind you, we still have to move into our kitchen and house, but the major putting the house itself together is done.

When we were talking Josh was smiling and said, "We have a good thing. Sure we have our distractions, but we have a good thing." I liked that, we do have a good thing. It's not always apparent to others the little private gems of our relationship, but we do have a good thing. And we're very much in love, we just show it more privately (although I love seeing others more openly, we're not opposed:).

I liked that he said "distractions" too, it's a much more accurate word than some others that could be used there. At the end of the day when we're focused on each other, nothing else really matters and everything else really is just a distraction. And yes, of course there are plenty of great things to do besides stare into each others eyes all day long, as long as there's some time for that too.

We continued onto the best, most relaxing, wonderful night after that. We had a family pizza party in front of the tv while we all watched "Backyardigans" and had ice cream bars. Once the kids went to bed--peacefully too for a change since they're not sleep deprived--we sat and watched our own movie, which was a nice entertaining PG movie that neither of us have seen. That alone is something to write about.

Then we went to bed, earlier than in the last month, on clean sheets.

Yes, we have a good thing and very good things indeed.

Q: What's a good thing you've had lately?