In efforts to not get into a deeply stinky funk over the fact that I really only see my husband a few shorts days a month, I thought up a few perks of being a married, wife of a pilot yet "single" gal (with two kids and dog).
- I don't have to share the remote.
- I can watch cheesy girly movies to my hearts content and don't have to fight tooth and nail and face the mocking afterwards (granted the children stay asleep, of course)
- I don't have to share the bathroom.
-Not many parenting conflicts. I am the only one here so my daughter (who is the only one using actual words of late) can't run and boohoo to Daddy or ask him for a second opinion and disregard the first. What I say, goes. This is also not a perk as well, but we are looking at the bright side here!
-If passengers don't eat their catering, Andrew brings it home for us. Cheese platter, anyone? (On his LAST leg! No, he does not save food and travel around with it for a week! That's just gross.)
-Along the same lines, he brings home Splenda packets from hotels. We are super penny savers!!
-Hotel points. The past three anniversaries we have had, we were able to go away for two nights each time all using hotel points.
-We have periodic access to airplanes. No, we do not OWN a plane so we can't just load up and fly out whenever. Many, many little conditions need to be right, but we have been able to fly to Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, New Jersey (to go to the Central Park Zoo in NYC...so fun!), and once we drove down to CT thinking we were going to be able to fly back home, but we ended up back in the car... Oh well.
-I can sit and eat popcorn for dinner.
-I can go wherever I want (with kids in tow, of course) and I don't have to run it by anyone.
-I can turn the light out and go to sleep (I need it dark and quiet to sleep, so if Andrew is home and up or in bed with the light on, I have to wait because I won't be able to sleep).
-I can pop over to my parents' house anytime I want.
There are a lot more non-perks, but this short list made me somewhat less sorry for myself.
Absolutely Awesome! LOL...you are a card :-)
ReplyDeleteYou are giving away our splenda secret!!! you left out the unlimited amount of shampoo, conditioner, bath soaps, etc. i have access to ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you for being positive! I love you.
We welcome you popping in any time you want...with or without Andrew :)
ReplyDeleteThank the Lord I spelled popping right!
ReplyDeleteOk... bringing home the Freebies... that's hereditary... His Grandmother did that with everything! She figured if it was on the table or tray it was meant for you to consume... and weather it was not or a week or month or two later doesn’t matter! (By the way, year old little jam containers have become vulcanized and are not edible!) I do the shampoo and soap ALL THE TIME!
ReplyDeleteI loved the rest of your list! I too have experienced that when Barb would be out ministering at all those women's conferences... only I didn’t watch Chick flicks.... Sci-Fi space movies were my thing! haha!!!
Great Blog!! Keep em comming... I love em!