Dream

I just woke up from a very long dream. In the dream, David and I were spraying carpet with this weird steam blaster, and then pulling up the carpet. We were also peeling the paint off our cars (it was a dream, and it made sense then, and it was very satisfying, like peeling a sunburn or getting a label all off in one piece), and pulling up concrete edging from flower beds in a yard. We worked all night in my dreams, but for some reason, they were really, really happy dreams. David and I were having a lot of fun working together. Don't know why I am sharing this... It was just that kind of dream where you hit your snooze button and try to fall back into it, because it is so happy and you want to stay in it. Normally I am not even myself in my own dreams, it is more like I am a fictional character with my own consciousness layered underneath... But in this dream, I was exactly me, and Dave was exactly him, and it was exactly now, and we were exactly happy! I guess it bodes well for our marriage that even my dreams of house renovation and yard work are happy ones. We were having so much fun.
We board our cruise ship on Friday! I am so excited I can barely function! Seriously, never have I felt such an urgent, burning need to get AWAY! And this is like really, really AWAY! No cell phones! No computers! No Facebook! No one else but me and the love of my life! (And a couple thousand other people, but hey, I am banking on the fact that they will (HOPEFULLY) all be total strangers!) Last night, Jonathan had to read a book about transportation *which he read ALL BY HIMSELF!!!!* and then do a journal sentence I see a _____ go, and illustrate it. He chose ship *which he sounded out correctly and wrote down ALL BY HIMSELF!!!!* He then drew a picture, which included a dock, a ship, the ocean, and a GIANT wave that was perched in midair, threatening to drench the ship. Then he drew some "hurricane clouds." I don't need a child psychologist to interpret this for me! Resentful much, little buddy? Well, too bad, because Mama and Daddy are SO LEAVING YOU HERE!!!! I'm not even going to pretend like I am sad! (Just so you know, I love my kids dearly, and I am sure by Monday I will be running off the ship to get to see them again. I think it helps that I am leaving them with Nona, and she takes better care of them then we do! They will be in good hands, and I can leave them worry free. What a huge blessing that is!!!!)