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There was this just blissful period before kids where on Saturday mornings, we'd sit on the sun deck, reading the paper or books, music, chill music going. We were both making bank, had zero chores around the house except for laundry and a little housework, and 48 hours of nothing yawning before us. Movies. Lake trips with friends. Dinners out. Bike rides. You name it.
I wouldn't trade our three kids for anything in the world. But, yeah, I get nostalgic about times when we literally had no obligations, no yard work, no anything. We're on the cusp of being empty nesters, and are actually going to sell the house and move into a downtown apartment. So we're looking forward to a lot of that again.
Bear in mind, too, that enjoying memories from early on in relationships doesn't preclude enjoying where your relationship is in the present, nor does it preclude looking optimistically into the future.
Some people are VERY into the early phases of relationships, with all the heightened anticipation, the exciting giddiness, the crackling of discovering new chemistry, the getting to know someone and all the thrills of that stage. There are even infatuation junkies. These are sometimes the people who get bored and start looking for outs when the relationship moves into the next stage, and the people who relationship hop and tire of relationships when they're not new.
That is different than those of us who acknowledge that it is fun to remember and reminisce about the beginnings of a relationship, while still being very happy with where the relationship has since gone.
There was this just blissful period before kids where on Saturday mornings, we'd sit on the sun deck, reading the paper or books, music, chill music going. We were both making bank, had zero chores around the house except for laundry and a little housework, and 48 hours of nothing yawning before us. Movies. Lake trips with friends. Dinners out. Bike rides. You name it.
I wouldn't trade our three kids for anything in the world. But, yeah, I get nostalgic about times when we literally had no obligations, no yard work, no anything. We're on the cusp of being empty nesters, and are actually going to sell the house and move into a downtown apartment. So we're looking forward to a lot of that again.
We had the end of our engagement and our first year of marriage like that, where my husband was assigned to shore duty instructing at a Navy base, we lived in huge, beautiful Navy senior enlisted/NCO/Officers' housing, didn't have to so much as mow a lawn or maintain a thing, and would have weekends we'd fill with biking the shore trail, getting up early and taking a thermos of coffee, a blanket, a stack of books, and the dogs to the beach, dining out, candle-lit dinners on our back deck, etc. It was like an extended honeymoon...great times.
We're now in the raising babies, little sleep, home improvements, family plans and projects phase, which we both desperately wanted and actually didn't think we were gonna get to do (we met at 35 and 40, and weren't sure if kids were in the cards, but hoped for the best). But I will say, a weekend spent building our backyard chicken coop while my toddler son plays with the baby chicks, and my husband taking him for a stroller ride to the park while I make lunch and put my 8-mo. pregnant swelling feet up and read a book is no less thrilling to us than a million beach days and candle-lit dinners on the deck. It's a gift.
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