Sometimes we need to step outside ourselves in order to remind ourselves of what we really need.
Disclaimer: my wife has full knowledge about what I am about to tell and she even condoned it. That’s why I love her.
This past week has been, plainly put, crazy. My wife and I, along with always joyous Buddy and Blasé Ava moved into a new home. Even though it was just across the road from our old home, it was a move nonetheless. Our mental preparation started months ago and we planned everything to a tee and felt confident that everything will fall into place as the move started. It didn’t, at all.
The main bedroom needed tiles so we started on that and ran out of tiles and as luck would have it, not one single place stocks the same or even similar tiles in our city so I bought brand new tiles for the room. Next up it was painting the walls and not to be outdone by the tiles, the paint decided to not be paint at all but a ceiling undercoat and pretty much useless, luckily the local Mica and Earnest sorted me out with new paint.
This all sounds very mild, but mix that together with having to move on a deadline, a baby expo to get Liah (our future daughter) stocked up with goodies and a wife who is 24 weeks pregnant with hormones that are ever present, then you have a combination that will make a grown man cry.
See my wife doesn’t like if I don’t stress with her when we are stressing. She finds it very odd that I remain calm (on the outside) and expects me to also stress and worry. I handle things differently and besides having two people worry just turns the worrying into more worrying.
That’s the funny thing about life, we worry about things we don’t have control over. We have a certain way we want things to go and we struggle to accept the outcome but forget to see there are sometimes multiple paths to the same destination. Life is only as hard as we make it for ourselves, but at the end of the day it comes down to what we choose.
Buddy is relaxing on his bed and I envy him but I know that later we can relax as well, as soon as I figure out how to get the couch through the door
