So it wasn’t exactly on New Years but it was fairly close. Funny thing is we decided on Tuesday evening for me to come out…I left Friday after work and drove straight to Shelley. After a stop for gas, and taking a route around traffic that I thought would be faster, I arrived there a bit later than normal. Either way though, I was so very happy to be there that time didn’t even matter.
I arrived to find just Shelley, anxiously waiting for me, the children were staying with their grandmother for the night. We ate a light dinner of shrimp Alfredo then snuggled up on the couch for a while. We went to bed rather late but since the children weren’t there, we slept in on Saturday morning.
Saturday we slept in for a while, got up and showered then played some games. Originally we were supposed to have the children back by that afternoon, but Michele asked if they could stay another night. Shelley and I agreed thinking how nice it was just to be able to spend this time with each other. We decided to go ahead and go see a movie, Valkyrie. It was excellent by the way. The only problem was that we left early to go see it, expecting traffic and there was none. We wound up walking around Best Buy and PetsMart until it was time to go see it. Oh, we took Henry over there and back as it had been a while since Shelley had been in him. We actually went to bed early that night as we were both a bit tired.
Sunday Shelley picked up the children early and the four of us just had a really nice day together. She made chicken and dumplings that turned out pretty decent. Truthfully it was just a nice day at home with the family. I had to leave, of course for work, but none of us wanted to part. We put it off for quite a bit truthfully. When I got home I called her as we always do and it honestly didn’t feel like I had left that long before the called. We stayed on the phone for about an hour and a half just talking and that seemed to help the fact that we were not together, but not really.
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