Anniversary Trip

We spent five marvelous days 

away from it all,

celebrating our 15th Anniversary

which is coming up on June 2.

It was lovely.

I am tempted to leave it at that.

For a couple who has held pretty strictly  to their motto of --

"The closer you live to reality, 

even in your special moments, 

the better off you will be."

Five days away

was quite an extravagance.

Or maybe I should be painfully honest here: It was really just the wife. And she very nearly ruined every lovely detail of the trip on the front end by her guilt and fear and selfishness.

I could give you gory details

but it's complicated.

I have a secret suspicion that many of you wives and mothers would understand but the fact is, I'd just as soon leave what's in the past in the past.

We spent two nights with friends in Virginia Beach and the rest of our time in Ocean City, Maryland.

It was absolutely lovely.

The beauty of the ocean, the sightseeing and the relaxing, the talking and the remembering and the need to only think of each other and no one else, the complete enjoyment of each other and what God has done in our lives these past 15 plus years.

Lovely.

I still belief the truth of our motto

but I also believe that, while not essential to happiness, occasionally it can be good for one's heart, soul and relationship to do something completely removed from reality.

And now, on to reality with a vengeance she said, looking at the piles of laundry and messy suitcases and general clutter and the chattering, busy children and the clock, whose hands march relentlessly on toward time to leave for the school picnic........