I was visiting The Coyboy’s Wife and found out that she is having a Land’s End Giveaway. She is giving away a very pretty red woman’s slippers, a fleece pajama set and these men’s moc slippers. My first instinct was the pajamas. My daughter would love to have one of those fleece pajamas. I wouldn’t have minded the red slippers either.

Then I realized, my poor husband doesn’t have good slippers and I didn’t even think about it until much later. I felt bad. I remember a time when he came first on my shopping list and any other lists. Now 17 years and 3 kids later, I realize I have kind of put him on the back burner. Poor thing just doesn’t come up on top of very many lists lately. I hear this is what happens to old married folks, but if you told me this 17 years ago I wouldn’t have believed you.

Our anniversary is coming up in a few days. We probably won’t be going anywhere just the two of us. We’ve just gotten in the habit of always having the girls with us for any celebration, birthdays and anniversaries alike. We don’t have a lot of time to be just the two of us anymore and I don’t think either of us mind. We both like having our girls with us. However, I think we do need to work on making each other more of a priority. We need to hike each other up a little higher on the list if you know what I mean.

I was tagged by Cheh, the Moderately Confused Pinay in Deutschland for this meme a while back and I am finally getting around to it today.

Here are the following guidelines of the meme:
1. First name: (a photo would be nice)
2. How and where did you meet?
3. Characteristics
4. Your plans 20 to 30 years from now.

This is a meme about our better halves. Or worse halves whichever way you want to look at it No matter which way you look at it, they are our halves and without them we cannot be whole.

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I was tagged by Teacher Julie a few weeks back to talk about what I was thinking when I met my husband.

I was not in a happy place when I met my husband. I was just coming out of an eight year relationship that ended badly and meeting someone else was the farthest thing on my mind. It was a weird time when I felt so low and unattractive but strangely light as if a huge burden has been lifted off me.

I talked to my husband first before I ever met him. He had called looking for my sister’s fiance’ who was, coincidentally, his half brother. Although the conversations was brief, he claims that even then he thought me attractive sounding. I don’t even remember that conversation until years later when I was cleaning some papers and I had written down on a piece of paper, “Mike from North Carolina called for James”.
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They are having fun, and I miss them, but this is their time to bond with their cousins. I was just thinking this week how nowadays we are all so busy with our own lives and living so far apart that we don’t really get to know our cousins. When my husband and I were growing up (him here, and me in the Philippines) our cousins were like our siblings. We just took it for granted that they are part of our lives then and always.

Some of my most cherished memories were the antics my cousins and I used to get into. We also got into fights, battles, with each other which of course always ends up in us getting into major trouble then making up later on. I still remember a precious trike we received as a christmas present which lasted all but three days because my cousins and I, all thirteen of us (then), decided to all get on at the same time. I wish I could have had a photo of that; we may have broken a record.

Even though I miss my girls, and really I do, I hope they are making these kinds of memories with their cousins. Their cousins are a lot younger than they are, but I hear they hold their own pretty well