Life with Kids and Traveling with them too!

My other half (my better half) is gone right now.  He’s been gone a total of 3 days & it feels like 3 weeks.  If you had asked me last week if I feel I take my hubby for granted, I would have very positively said, “No way.  I thank God for him everyday”.  The thanking God for him & our kids everyday - is definitely the truth.  The not taking for granted part…not so sure now.  We tend to be equal partners in our relationship. (okay, it’s not always equal, but we try).  That is to say, we share most duties equally.  There are some duties that we silently agree the other will handle.   For example - any house repairs (my hubby handles) and the finances (I handle).  I know our relationship is not like everyone else’s.  It’s not uncommon to see my hubby shopping for the groceries, doing the laundry, or even doing my daughter’s hair.  Yes, part of that is because he truly is just a wonderful, selfless man.  The other part would be because we truly do try to share all of our responsibilities.  It works for us.  The true awakening has been now that he has been gone.  He’s been gone before and we always manage.  I guess the difference is this time that my plate is no longer just full, but now the piles are falling over, and I’ve added a salad dish.  It didn’t hit me all at once how much I “under-appreciate” all that my hubby does.  It’s showed here and there with little, everyday things.  Like when I emptied our full trash can and left the trash in the garage to throw outside.  When my kids & I left this morning our garage had a not so pleasant smell and I suddenly realized, “I guess I am supposed to throw the trash away.”  Apparently, no “trash god” lives in my nieghborhood.  It was than I realized how my hubby always does that for us and I’ve never even given it a second thought.  Then on Saturday morning when my kids said they wanted blueberry pancakes for breakfast - I thought, no problem, only to realize that after I had made them, we had no syrup!  Usually, I make a list of needed items on our handy refrigerator pad and my hubby takes care of the rest.  Apparently, I don’t have a “last minute grocery runner god “either.  The big eye opener came last night as I was awakened at 2:30 by my 2 year old who had a “major” accident while he was sleeping.  (And by major, I don’t mean pee…you get my drift).  To make matters worse, my 2 year old tried to clean up all by himself (bless his heart).  So, I had twice the amount of mess to clean up as I probably would have had.  The big revelation in this ordeal is not that I had to get up and clean at 2 a.m..  (Although it’s very likely my hubby would have jumped out of bed right away.)  It was the fact that I have a very weak stomach, so I was dry heaving the entire time I was cleaning up.  As you can guess, my hubby handles most of the bodily fluid incidents in our home.  Apparently, I don’t have a “clean up the bodily fluids god” either.  Anyhow, as I was scrubbing away my son’s carpets at the wee hours in the morning it dawned on me that I absolutely do take my hubby for granted.  Not for sharing the duties with me equally.  I am well aware he does all those things without ever complaining.  But for all the other things he does for me and our family that I never even give a second thought to.  Throwing the trash I leave in the garage, buying groceries on my list, and cleaning up bodily fluids are just a few of them, I’m sure.  Than I realized, I do have a “trash god”, a “grocery runner god”, and a “bodily fluid god” - they are my husband.  I made a mental note to be sure and thank my hubby not only for eveyrthing he does for us that we “know” about, but for all those things that we may not know about.  Here’s a reminder to all of you not to take for granted all the blessings (and gods) in your life.

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