Things are looking better today...
I figured I better start out my post like that, because I may start losing readers if I had another post like my last one! It's safe to read this post...I'm feeling better...you can continue now...the pity party is over...
I've had the beginning of my "Single Life Season" this weekend. Aw, c'mon...I know I'm not the only one who lives this life. There are plenty of NFL widows who are in the bloggy world out there who are single until January, am I right? Now, my husband is not a sporty kind of guy - not in the team-sport arena, anyhow. You won't find him tossing a ball around. Sure, we make it to the stadium once or twice, and he'll cheer on a team if the game's on...but he's not a die-hard fan...he can take it or leave it. Superbowl games are fun to attend, but he knows no stats and our lives do not revolve around the team's game times. I've never known that life. But...hunting season begins next weekend. So, he had to go scouting the land this weekend, and sighting in his and Aaron's rifles (it's a special youth hunt in a few weeks) and their bows. We coordinated our schedules and Mike is home ONE WEEKEND between now and Christmas. ONE WEEKEND.
Now, before kids I would pine away the time he was gone and lament over the fact that my honey was spending time away from me. My heart ached. Then, when the kids were little, I admit I was a little bitter that he got all this time away and I didn't get his attention. Now that Aaron goes with Mike (which has been the case for a few years now), Bridgette and I have special girl time and we shop and prepare for the holidays and eat whatever we want (usually "chick food" that the boys won't eat) and paint our nails and see chick flicks and hang out with our friends. It's a four month vacation! So, I'm on vacation for the next four months! I am a hunter's widow for four months out of the year. And, my widowhood has begun. (Mike and I actually go on a date night ono Wednesday evenings, so it's not really that bad! Don't let me fool you...I'm being dramatic!)
Well, I'm off to my first book club meeting this morning with a new group of friends. I only know one girl...my friend Heather. We read "Summer At Tiffany" which was a true story about a college girl in the 40's who became the first woman page to work at Tiffany's with her friend for a summer job...it was a charming book! I really liked it. It captured the innocence of the age...but also the turmoil of the war at the time. The similarity between then and now (a plane crashed into the Empire State Building) was striking. I was riveted. Anyhow, I'm looking forward to meeting a whole new group of women. And, I've never been in a book club and always wanted to be in one. So, this is a new adventure for me. So...I better jump in the shower (Mike always says "Don't slip!") after I start my daily routine.
Have a great Monday. It's been fun chatting.
4 comments:
I love that your husband tells you not to slip when you jump in the shower, because I always say I'm going to hop in the shower and Monte tells me not to fall! Too funny! :)
I, too, am a hunter's widow - however, my widowness is only lasting a couple of months this year. You see, we have this baby who is due in November, so my dear Monte promised me that he will not be hunting after the end of October (though I did tell him he could have the first weekend in November, depending on how the doctor says we're doing) ... but I somehow have a feeling that he'll find time to hunt after the baby is born, too! :)
Miss you my dear friend! Have a wonderful time at your book club :)
I will read all your posts...no need to sugarcoat!
I so feel you on the "weekend widow" status. Mine like to hunt too, but more often it is because of football and baseball.
There is the watching and then the coaching.
(Maybe i'll join y'all for a chick flick.)
Yep, we are both widows until January Pennie...except I'm the football kind! However, I'm lucky that my in-laws take the boys that day so I can have some time to myself. Because there is no way I would be looking after them myself!
Enjoy your book club and girl time with your daughter!
Ugh I am so with you on the husbandless thing! Matt is obsessed with the Packers and football in general and I totally hate football. I think it is mostly because of how crazy guys get about it not the sport in itself. :)
And then hunting! Yup, gone all month long doing that too. I don't get it. It is harder now with the kids so little but it will be wonderful when Alexa and I get to go out shopping all month! :)
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