Absence Makes…..

The King is away, he’s in Spain for business for a week. This means life gets a little easier around here.(ahem) I don’t have to make awesome dinners… the kids are happy with quick easy vegie free fare or even take out! Bonus.

I get the remote to myself and can watch all the cop dramas and history channel I want or even sappy movies. Bonus.

I get more sleep because I go to bed earlier and don’t have to be available for grown up play. Bonus.

I can stay in bed and check my email, and be noisy and have the bed made by 7am. B o n u s.

All these things are  things that I think I need…. but then I can’t sleep because he’s not beside me and I keep waiting for him to finally come upstairs.

I watch exactly the same things on tv as if he was still in control of the remote.

I can’t get moving in the mornings because I didn’t get straight up and life is just a little lonelier because he’s not around…

We think we want space and need time away until we have it and then we realise that being together is so much better.

I will get that good night sleep thursday because I’ll be so exhausted from not sleeping that I’ll finally pass out. I will watch the history channel just because I can but probably go back to Frasier and Big Bang Theory. And I will get time off from cooking, although I’ll probably make something awesome just cos the kids love it.

Whoever decided ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’ was not kidding.