grub's Journal: Family is coming back home today!

Yaayy!!!

Kim and BabyAnna went to Edmonton for a week to visit Kim's sister and brother-in-law. The house has been so damn quiet I was going out of my mind. For a week there was:

- No calling home "as I turn onto Colony St."

- No asking if we need anything picked up

- No Anna smiling and bouncing in her chair as I walk in the house

- No kisses when I get in (Kim's still on mat leave and usually there when I get home)

- Too many "dinners for one" :( (That one hurts)

- None of Kim's laughing and joking (she has a deliciously evil sense of humour)

- No feeding Anna her dinner at 6:00

- No putting our little girl in her crib together and just smile at her before we quietly scuttle out.

- No waking up to Anna's smiling face.

- No going out to the store "as a family"

Our home became quiet as a tomb.

Going straight home was a total drag so a couple of times I went out for a beer(s) after work. Then the "Man, what would I do without them?" mind tricks happened. That kind of crap started up. So I'd leave the pub feeling worse than I did before I went in.

I'm so domestic now but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

btw, be sure to visit Anna's Homepage :) No homepage for Kim (yet?)...

edit: 12:20 CST Just got mail from Kim, she sounds happy about coming home too. :)

Oh gees. . . .

[smooth wombat]

Get a room you two.

Oh wait, you already did! ;)

If the time should come that I'm (again) living with someone, I'm sure that I'll have some of the same sentiments you have. Of course that will depend on the person. If she can't wait to get home and rip my clothes off a couple of times a week, all will be good.

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[grub]

This time around is totally different :)

I had lived with some women over the years, always having degraded to "friends". Got married for a silly reason (US job) about 7 years ago and the divorce was finalized ~5 years ago.

I decided that when I was ready to get back into the dating game I was't going to just settle and ignore crap.

Virtually every woman I've ever dated has had something that bugged me early on which I chose to overlook. I had a list of things I didn't like (smoking, excessive boozing/part

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[smooth wombat]

I only lived with one woman for about 7 years before things just fell apart. While we had some similarities, there were other things that we just didn't see eye-to-eye on. I'll even admit that I wasn't as mature as I should have been. Having lived on my own for the last 6 years or so, I'm much different and, somewhat like you, more domestic.

I've always had a list of things I didn't like, identical to yours ironically, and that has kept me from going on many dates. That and I get bored at bars/clubs/what

Same boat, here....

[FortKnox]

I leave after work to training out of town until Wednesday night (after the kids are asleep), then the wife leaves Thursday afternoon (while I'm at work) to travel to her parents. Won't be home until Monday night (after the kids are asleep). That means I hear "DADDY'S HOME!" from either child until next tuesday after work :(
I hate travel....

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[grub]

Ug yeah. Once in a blue moon I have to travel for work but, perhaps because I do my job so well, I can do 99.9% of it through VPN tunnels we have across the country now.