1/2 day off

I love it that my husband has a 1/2 day off every other Friday. I anticipate it and get all giddy as noon approaches on those days. I see his truck drive up and I tell the kids “Daddy’s home!” and Quinn and Mia race outside to great him.

Yesterday, Cody and Cory also got out of school early. We picked them up, then took off to get the plates for the RV and a day of running errands in the city. It was pretty dull in general…..bought 3 dozen crickets, looked at all the animals, walked the mall looking at books etc.. We also ate at our favorite mexican/seafood restaurant. Our plates were piled high with shrimp, fish and pico de gallo. Bill and I drank a Tecate with lime and enjoyed watching the kids. It is a smallish place and the local mexicans are the usual customers. I like it because the food is superb and no one tells us “you have your hands full”, or “better you than me”. They say things like “Muy bonito” and they touch my children; ruffling their hair or placing a palm across a small, smooth face and talking gently to them.

Then we pay our bill and load into the van and I pass out Ghirardelli chocolate bars filled with carmel. Bill and I share one and visit quietly in the front seat on the drive home in the dark.

It is so amazing to be together as a family. Even doing the simplest things.

A perfectly boring, wonderful 1/2 day off.