What a week.

My wife and I both had the 4th off so we went to the local fair. My son got to jump in a HUGE pirate jumper for hours while my wife and I jsut sat on the grass and watched him. If it wasn’t for the big generator making all the noise it would have been perfect. Oh and it was so BLOODY HOT!!!!!!!!!!!! :nuke: We had hotdogs and soda, lemonaide, and ice cream. We walked thru the arts and crafts stuff and my wife bought a cute wood firecracker thingy. My son even built a little boat from Home Depot. Very cool little fair. After we had been there for a while my wife mentioned she was getting tired and too hot and I said okay, we could go if she want. She turned to me and commented how surprised she was that I was willing to stay as long as I had. Normally with that many people around, I would be asking to go. Hey, I guess therapy does work. :wink:

I got to say, I like the work week. I mean, you come in Monday and think “ahh it’s monday, yuck” but then Tuesday is a holiday then you come back and you think “hey I only have three days. Woo hoo!” :grin:

Now it’s the weekend. Yesterday was a great CUB meeting. There were a lot of people, several of them new, and we had some really good discussions. It’s funny how these meetings can be so uplifting and heartwrenching.

Driving home, I had such a scare though. I had tried to call my wife but she wasn’t answering her cell phone. Calling home, my mother-in-law said she hadn’t heard from my wife either. You see, earlier in the day my wife had taken my son to the beach at around 10:00. I was trying to call her at 7:00. I had my MIL called an aunt that lives nearby (I didn’t have her number.) I asked her to call them and have my wife call me OR call me back if she isn’t there. After 5 minutes of panicky driving at 90mph, I got tired of waiting and called her back. My wife wasn’t there. That’s when all the bad possibilities started going thru my mind. As I was on the final freeway of my journey (it’s about 30 miles from home to meeting and three freeways,) my wife calls. The relief was like removing an extra heavy coat. My hands were shaking, my heart pounding. They were both safe and had been at the beach all day. She just hadn’t heard her phone (it does ring softly so we are off to verizon to see about getting a new one for her with a louder ring.)

So I guess I still have some work to do. I know better than to start imagining the worst until all the possibilities have been reviewed but I was still a little raw from the CUB meeting. Bottom line is that they were safe and sound and I think I will go mad if I ever lose either of them.

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