The post of last night was prompted by this movie I watched. The movie in and of it's self wasn't particularly great but there was one line in it that caused my contemplation of such things. The female lead had a line that went something like "I want a relationship that will last. If I loose all my limbs I want to know that the relationship will last. If I am scared to tell him something because I'm afraid he'll stop loving me and then when I tell him, it ends up making him love me more - I want that....." It went on but I don't recall it all. When I heard that line I thought "Wow, lucky me, I'm in that kind of relationship." David said to me many many years ago that he wasn't just a "fair weather friend". (I was grouchy and had just broken up with some random boyfriend (that David never liked) and told David it would probably be better if he just didn't come hang out as planned. He came anyway and has, indeed, proven to be more than just a "fair weather" friend.) If you don't think you married your best friend - make them your best friend. It's not that hard - tell them your secrets and choose to spend time with them over others. It's rare David and I choose to go do separate things without one another. However, OTHER friends are very important!! David and I have been very blessed to have made good friends since moving here and have been even more blessed to maintain friendships we made in college and before those years. Friendships enrich our marriage and draw us closer to one another.

Hm, maybe I'm being so uncharacteristically sentimental because in the last three weeks I've seen David only about 36 hours. Absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder. =0) Which is the other thing, because we are apart often we work hard to make every minute we are together count! Even if it's just watching a movie and snuggling on the "man chair" under a shared quilt.

Hubs - COME HOME!!! I'm making Christmas cookies and would HATE to eat them all myself.