marriage issues

The Honeymoon is Over


Last Thursday was a day of rushing madly around and being distracted while I was attempting to be where I needed. Even so, Rob and I managed to find time to sit down to lunch. Without much exception we eat lunch together every day. Probably one of the reasons I can’t get back into a size eight. I have never eaten lunch in my life! My adult life anyway. Digression aside, we didn’t really have the time Thursday for a proper lunch connection where we could chat and relax. Not that lunch is leisurely. I have Kate to get to kindergarten and he has just a thirty minute lunch break. Regardless, we sit as a family and eat. All three meals.

As a result, I have become that parent whose child is never on time for school.

“How did you get to be the tardy mom?” Read Full Article

Could You Have Sex for 101 Days?


Not continuously, but at least once a day for 101 days, a Denver journalist and his wife found the time and the stamina to engage in intimacy – and journal about it – for posterity. The resulting book, called Just Do It, by Doug and Annie Brown was an idea that sprang from a conference called “Sex and Pop Culture” that Doug had attended. While there he learned of the “100 Day Club” which is a club no one wants to be a member of because it means that, for whatever reason, you and your partner have been without sex for 100 days or more.

Hmmm. Been there done that. Read Full Article

A Prairie Wedding – the Monday Meme


A year ago today Rob arrived in Des Moines to help me finish packing for the move to Alberta and the beginning of our life together. Aside from two nights last December when he and the older girls traveled up to Grande Prairie when his late mother-in-law took ill, we haven’t been apart since and with our first wedding anniversary at the end of the month I thought it appropriate to commemorate today’s mini-anniversary with a song.

Rob first sent me the Mark Knopfler song, A Prairie Wedding, during our long distance days when we were sending each other a half-dozen emails apiece daily and spending our evenings and nights either IMing or on the phone with each other. It’s an appropriate tune for us because like the couple in the song we only knew each other by our words for a while in the beginning and we came to know and love each other through their strength.

The assignment for today, should you choose to participate, is to share a song that has meaning for you for whatever reason. 

I am looking forward to seeing, reading about, or hearing your choices. Don’t forget to link back.