27 Days of Bliss

My husband has been home from Afghanistan for 27 days. It has been 27 days of finding our groove, each other, and a new normal. The first week and a half (while I was working) he decompressed by rebuilding our privacy fence, laying sod in the backyard and doing a bit of landscaping. The following week we travelled to the West coast to visit our kids and other family. It was a great trip! The rest of last week (his last week before starting back to work) Rich continued to piddle around the house, calling me a few times throughout the day to say how bored he was!

Saturday we leathered-up and headed out on a long (300 miles) motorcycle ride that circle across N. Alabama, up Natchez Trace to downtown Nashville and back home.

Whewww...we were totally wiped out after all of that riding. But let me tell you, the scenery was just beautiful up the Trace. Rich did all of the hard work while I sat behind him soaking it all up and reading my Kindle every so often.

Sunday we went to the Monthly Blocker Breakfast for some family time, a few laughs, and an overall good time! After a quick trip to Walmart we made our way back home for a whole lot of NOTHING!!! Rich changed into his (as he called them) "not doing shit all day" clothes and I found a comfy sun dress and joined him in the backyard hammock. We laid in the hammock for 3 hours, each of us reading and doing nothing more.

As we lay there in the hammock and the warm breeze I couldn't help but steal a zillion glances at him. This was our perfect day and I couldn't believe that we were there in that moment together.

 

I've tried to remember what it was like without him for a year, through deployment, and I can't. I've said it a hundred times but I really feel like 2010 did not happen. That I went to sleep one night and he was gone, only to wake up the next morning and he's there. 

We followed up our hammock time with a cookout with our daughters and our neighbors - such a wonderful ending to a wonderful weekend!

Happy Monday!