My husband and I leave on a trip to New Orleans tomorrow. We’re celebrating a milestone wedding anniversary this year – 8 years. (if you care to know the significance, click here http://www.parentingoc.com/sugarmama_0708.html) We were supposed to go to Mexico, but I didn’t want to leave the country without our kids. (Louisiana is actually farther away from where we live, but I’ve never made very much sense.) Which is probably why I have anxiety about this trip. Joe and I haven’t traveled together – just the two of us – since having kids six years ago. We didn’t even take a honeymoon unless you count taking a slightly modified road trip from our wedding in San Francisco to Laguna Beach. So what if he finds the real me out? That I’m a nut? A fraud? A bore?
So I asked him to bring a legal pad home from his office last night.
“What for?” he asked.
“To write notes for the plane ride.” I answered.
“Notes about what?”
“Well, I was going to write down a list of topics…which of my haircuts have you liked best, why won’t you let the cat sleep with us, where’s my present…That sort of stuff.”
“Are you worried we won’t have anything to talk about?”
“Kind of.”
And then he walked down the hall laughing. Hysterically.
“Well, you write your own topics then!” I yelled after him.
See? This is why I picked New Orleans. Where the music is loud and the talkin’ is boozey.
So I’ll y’all next week. I’ll work on a list of topics for us when I get back.:)
