How does a couple celebrating six months together find a moment to breathe (and maybe even sneak a kiss!) when they are at a gigantic indoor water park surrounded by swimsuit-clad children screeching for "ONE MORE TIME!" down the Crazy Rapids Slide and waving MagicQuest wands at each other/the walls/their own foreheads/my coffee?
The answer: Whenever you can. Part of making any relationship that involves children survivable is making sure you take time for yourselves as a couple. Everyone knows that, but it's much easier said than done.
We snuck a lovely few moments of peace during breakfast in our hotel room on the first day. The kids were happy playing and eating inside so we snuck to the balcony with our Starbucks and a pile of bacon and fruit while we listened to the soft rushing of the interstate through the trees just past the parking lot... we pretended it was a meadow and the interstate was a river. It totally worked.
Being that Friday was our 6month-aversary, we decided to steal some "us" time Thursday evening after bedtime. Ahhh... bedtime... that blissful moment when the children are quiet, and the adults can collapse on the stupid-small hotel room couch and steal a moment. So here we sat: pruny-fingered, smelling of chlorine and exhausted yet so blissfully happy that we had found a moment. We flicked on the hotel room fireplace, popped the bottle of overpriced {and sadly disgusting} "Great Wolf Lodge" private label red wine and curled up on the floor. I dug out the 70% dark chocolate bar I'd snagged at Whole Foods in an attempt to be romantic AND Paleo.
We toasted us, we toasted happiness and what a gift it is that we found each other at the moment in our life that we did. We never talk of "oh I wish I'd found you sooner" because we firmly believe in wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey stuffs and wouldn't dream of messing with the time streams our lives have followed thus far. We are grateful to be where we are and thankful for all we've learned. Six months in... and a lifetime ahead.
The answer: Whenever you can. Part of making any relationship that involves children survivable is making sure you take time for yourselves as a couple. Everyone knows that, but it's much easier said than done.
We snuck a lovely few moments of peace during breakfast in our hotel room on the first day. The kids were happy playing and eating inside so we snuck to the balcony with our Starbucks and a pile of bacon and fruit while we listened to the soft rushing of the interstate through the trees just past the parking lot... we pretended it was a meadow and the interstate was a river. It totally worked.
Being that Friday was our 6month-aversary, we decided to steal some "us" time Thursday evening after bedtime. Ahhh... bedtime... that blissful moment when the children are quiet, and the adults can collapse on the stupid-small hotel room couch and steal a moment. So here we sat: pruny-fingered, smelling of chlorine and exhausted yet so blissfully happy that we had found a moment. We flicked on the hotel room fireplace, popped the bottle of overpriced {and sadly disgusting} "Great Wolf Lodge" private label red wine and curled up on the floor. I dug out the 70% dark chocolate bar I'd snagged at Whole Foods in an attempt to be romantic AND Paleo.
We toasted us, we toasted happiness and what a gift it is that we found each other at the moment in our life that we did. We never talk of "oh I wish I'd found you sooner" because we firmly believe in wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey stuffs and wouldn't dream of messing with the time streams our lives have followed thus far. We are grateful to be where we are and thankful for all we've learned. Six months in... and a lifetime ahead.
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