I woke up this morning in a relaxed state. I really have nothing to do today that can’t wait until tomorrow afternoon. What a great feeling! This is the first weekend I’ve had in a long time where I don’t have anything to do and nothing to get ready for.
So I’ve remained in bed since waking up. Now I did go make some breakfast and a cup of coffee. But presently I find myself propped up in bed drinking my Chestnut Cream Coffee (with white chocolate macadamia nut creamer), chocolate whipped yogurt, and toast with organic cherry jelly. What a relaxing morning! Food network is on in the background – wonderfully relaxing and mentally stimulating at the same time.
I enjoy Saturdays and Sundays when I have nothing to do. I forget when I’m constantly hustling around and getting my enormous to-do list finished, that life is about these in-between moments when you can just live and breathe and enjoy a great cup of coffee. (The best part of the cup of coffee – besides the wonderful taste – is that when the cup is gone, I can simply make another one!)
All of these lazy days and wonderful feelings about life make me enjoy my current situation but also anticipate how they could get even better in the future. I can’t wait to spend every weekend with Phillip. We’ll both prop ourselves up in bed on our laptops. I’ll drink my coffee and surf the internet while he catches up on his sports blogs (or work-related things) all while watching whatever sport happens to be in season (not as mentally stimulating for me as food network, but still the same effect of background noise :P). We’ll stay in bed as long as our agenda and chore list allow us to. Those are the moments of married life I can’t wait for.
You see, it’s not really about the wedding for me – though planning a wedding is loads of fun!! To me, when I envision our wedding, I always seem to fast-forward to after the honeymoon. I imagine our flight home holding hands and then arriving back to our new apartment – our new life. I have to convince him to pick me up and carry me across the threshold (even though he’ll probably think it’s old fashioned and embarrassing with our next-door neighbors curiously peering out of the corner of their eyes as they pretend to be “searching for their hidden keys”). We arrive into our new living room and see all of the gifts we forgot we registered for. He of course will want to go straight to catching up on all of the sports news he couldn’t hear over the week of honeymooning, and I’ll want to unpack and organize everything in sight. And I can envision our first dinner in the new place. I’ll want to make some extremely hard recipe and take tons of pictures to put in the scrapbook. I will scour over millions of books and internet websites for the perfect thing to make – each being vetoed after I realize there’s an ingredient Phillip doesn’t like in it or after sadly realizing that we haven’t even gone grocery shopping yet. So after hours of frustration, Phillip will suddenly suggest getting Chili's to-go or Wendy's for about the tenth time. And then suddenly, that sounds like a fantastic idea.
I know I seem to have it all worked out and it will go nothing like the above prediction, but I can dream right? As you can see, I obviously have a gift of being able to see the future clear-as-day as if it were plainly written on the wall for everyone to see or as if I were some director of a movie with incredible vision.
But nights like those and days like these are the ones I cherish and will cherish over a lifetime. Right now I relish these moments by myself and the much needed alone time. In the future, though, I’ll love getting to spend time with my husband who is just as lazy and just as relaxed as me.
And that, my readers, is love. :]
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