Magic.
Holy October. It's been a wild month. I have to say it's magic we survived it at all. Adam has had to work extra Saturdays and a few days during the week between the last couple months to make October work.
The first weekend of the month was the only Saturday he worked because we literally had something going on the last 3 weekends. The second weekend we were supposed to be in Gaylord to do the Gaylord Half Marathon (just me) and we were going to leave the kids home with my mom. Well, the race was postponed until the spring so we decided to just go ahead and NOT lose the money we had already paid for a camping site. We decided to go camping, visit my brother and drop my mom off at his house for a couple days. Ya'll know how I feel about camping. I want to love it, I really do but I JUST DON'T. I hope to when Ari gets older, can listen better and actually sleeps decently in the camper. Until then, I do it for the kids and if I'm camping, theres a 99% chance I'm miserable. Sorry.
We got there later than we wanted to Friday night so it was dark. There was no one in the office either. When we tried to fill up the water tank with the hose (we don't do it at home because it's a lot heavier to pull with the water in, in case you were wondering). Well, the water is off. Great. We go and park the trailer and try to figure out where to get it. Turns out, there a hand pump a bit from our site. At this point, the kids have been in the car for 3 hours and were just insane. Hyper, not listening, just being so darn loud. I already regretted this decision and we'd been parked for .3 seconds. Adam needs my help because he can't hold the water bucket and hand pump. So here we are in the cold and in the pitch dark, hand pumping water for our stay. We got everyone in bed and lived to tell the tale the next day. I had planned on running but last minute decided to do my last long run on Friday with Stephanie and I'm glad I did. IT WAS SO COLD! I mean, I could've powered through for a race but to do it on my own, no thanks. Saturday we visited my brother, got back to the campsite before dark this time and just relaxed since we had dinner at my brother's. I went to bed early that night because I didn't feel great. Sunday, we packed up and came home.
The 3rd weekend was the Detroit Marathon. Here's a recap of that:
https://cruffchronicles.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-detroit-marathon-recap.html
The last weekend was this past weekend. Celebrating our 10 year anniversary. Now, I know I seem like an obnoxious millennial checking in everywhere and I'm not going to apologize for it. I asked Adam if my social media use bothered him and he said no. I asked if I could make a video series asking him questions about our relationship, he also said no lol. You see the thing is, he and I are very different but he rarely ever complains about it. Does he wish I wasn't so honest about our life? Sure, sometimes. Do I try to respect his privacy and if he really doesn't want me to share/talk about something. Yes. (Mostly) See, he doesn't try to dampen my personality just as I accept that he's not as outgoing/social/talkative as me. Do I push him outside his comfort zone sometimes? Yes. Just as he does to me.
I'm not going to lie. Coming from a broken home did I think I would make it 10 years? No. I didn't. Do I talk about divorcing him? No. Is the word divorce in my vocabulary? Yes. But not as it relates to us. You see when you grow up the way I did, you're always waiting for the other shoe to drop. To wake up from the dream that you have this great husband and a pretty good darn life. So although that word shouldn't be in my vocabulary and I work to eliminate it, the truth is, it is still a very real fear of mine!
Our weekend was great. We had wonderful weather for the dunes. Friday night, we went to dinner with my friend Amy and her bf. We went out solo for a beer at Right Brain. We came back to the Airbnb and hung out watching a movie. It was perfect. Saturday, we slept in, had brunch and did a tour. We got lunch after the tour that was a little disappointing. The only time we had some negative feelings was at dinner Saturday night. He was full from eating and drinking all day but I did not want to be lame-o's and go to the Airbnb to sleep after dinner! I didn't take a nap at 4 pm and drink a coffee at 6:30 pm just to go to bed at regular time! We worked through it. We compromised. We walked all of downtown. I told him I wanted to go to 7 Monks for one last beer but he didn't have to have one if he didn't want. He agreed and we ended up each having one and watching the World Series game. We went back and it was about midnight. Mission accomplished!
One of the reasons I flew my mom out there was because of this crazy month of October. The middle of September was pretty crazy too and the end, with Ragnar that it's been a blessing to have her here.
I think magic can come from God too. It was by his grace and awesomeness that we've made it to the end of October. Here's to slowing down in time for it to get crazy again with the holidays.
Thanks for reading!
The first weekend of the month was the only Saturday he worked because we literally had something going on the last 3 weekends. The second weekend we were supposed to be in Gaylord to do the Gaylord Half Marathon (just me) and we were going to leave the kids home with my mom. Well, the race was postponed until the spring so we decided to just go ahead and NOT lose the money we had already paid for a camping site. We decided to go camping, visit my brother and drop my mom off at his house for a couple days. Ya'll know how I feel about camping. I want to love it, I really do but I JUST DON'T. I hope to when Ari gets older, can listen better and actually sleeps decently in the camper. Until then, I do it for the kids and if I'm camping, theres a 99% chance I'm miserable. Sorry.
We got there later than we wanted to Friday night so it was dark. There was no one in the office either. When we tried to fill up the water tank with the hose (we don't do it at home because it's a lot heavier to pull with the water in, in case you were wondering). Well, the water is off. Great. We go and park the trailer and try to figure out where to get it. Turns out, there a hand pump a bit from our site. At this point, the kids have been in the car for 3 hours and were just insane. Hyper, not listening, just being so darn loud. I already regretted this decision and we'd been parked for .3 seconds. Adam needs my help because he can't hold the water bucket and hand pump. So here we are in the cold and in the pitch dark, hand pumping water for our stay. We got everyone in bed and lived to tell the tale the next day. I had planned on running but last minute decided to do my last long run on Friday with Stephanie and I'm glad I did. IT WAS SO COLD! I mean, I could've powered through for a race but to do it on my own, no thanks. Saturday we visited my brother, got back to the campsite before dark this time and just relaxed since we had dinner at my brother's. I went to bed early that night because I didn't feel great. Sunday, we packed up and came home.
The 3rd weekend was the Detroit Marathon. Here's a recap of that:
https://cruffchronicles.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-detroit-marathon-recap.html
The last weekend was this past weekend. Celebrating our 10 year anniversary. Now, I know I seem like an obnoxious millennial checking in everywhere and I'm not going to apologize for it. I asked Adam if my social media use bothered him and he said no. I asked if I could make a video series asking him questions about our relationship, he also said no lol. You see the thing is, he and I are very different but he rarely ever complains about it. Does he wish I wasn't so honest about our life? Sure, sometimes. Do I try to respect his privacy and if he really doesn't want me to share/talk about something. Yes. (Mostly) See, he doesn't try to dampen my personality just as I accept that he's not as outgoing/social/talkative as me. Do I push him outside his comfort zone sometimes? Yes. Just as he does to me.
I'm not going to lie. Coming from a broken home did I think I would make it 10 years? No. I didn't. Do I talk about divorcing him? No. Is the word divorce in my vocabulary? Yes. But not as it relates to us. You see when you grow up the way I did, you're always waiting for the other shoe to drop. To wake up from the dream that you have this great husband and a pretty good darn life. So although that word shouldn't be in my vocabulary and I work to eliminate it, the truth is, it is still a very real fear of mine!
Our weekend was great. We had wonderful weather for the dunes. Friday night, we went to dinner with my friend Amy and her bf. We went out solo for a beer at Right Brain. We came back to the Airbnb and hung out watching a movie. It was perfect. Saturday, we slept in, had brunch and did a tour. We got lunch after the tour that was a little disappointing. The only time we had some negative feelings was at dinner Saturday night. He was full from eating and drinking all day but I did not want to be lame-o's and go to the Airbnb to sleep after dinner! I didn't take a nap at 4 pm and drink a coffee at 6:30 pm just to go to bed at regular time! We worked through it. We compromised. We walked all of downtown. I told him I wanted to go to 7 Monks for one last beer but he didn't have to have one if he didn't want. He agreed and we ended up each having one and watching the World Series game. We went back and it was about midnight. Mission accomplished!
One of the reasons I flew my mom out there was because of this crazy month of October. The middle of September was pretty crazy too and the end, with Ragnar that it's been a blessing to have her here.
I think magic can come from God too. It was by his grace and awesomeness that we've made it to the end of October. Here's to slowing down in time for it to get crazy again with the holidays.
Thanks for reading!
.JPG)
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