The Grocery Store Moments

Saturday  night the family headed out to "town" as we say. . . which really just means Walmart.. . . AKA the grocery store.  Time together is so rare these days it was actually a treat for all of us just to be together at Walmart. . . the 5 of us. . . the "Fab 5", that is.  We then decided to pop over to Pizza Hut to get a bite to eat.  As we sat around the table, a Disney movie was playing on one of the TVs.  I then popped the question to everyone, "What is everyone's favorite Disney cartoon?"  As we all pondered the question, Jon and I remembered "Up".  The kids talked about how depressing it was.  Jon and I didn't totally disagreed. 

It's a beauty-full love story. . . a story about the introvert and the extravert. . . she wanting adventure, him wanting to give her adventure.  Yet something always came along to take the funds for their adventure.  She leaves him with her adventure book.  As he filips through the book, it is pictures of all their times together. . . the times of daily life, the times of the this, the thats, the others, the times of just going to the grocery store together.  She ends the book with thanking him for the adventure.  He was her adventure and life with him was better than any adventure he could have taken her on.  As Jon and I talked about the movie his eyes were wet with tears.  My cheeks were filled with tears.  The kids couldn't get over our tears.  Alec even threatened to take away Jon's "man card".

Why the tears? 

Because we get it.. . .we both get it. . . get that kind of a love.  It's the kind of love we're so blessed to have for one another.  Although our time spent alone together is very little, very seldom, very rare.. . . two people who live under the same house and "miss" one another.  He is here, there, and yonder working.  I'm the other here, there, and yonder doing.  Our time is so limited we focus it on our life as a family.  Yet, it was in that moment of connecting through our tears I knew our love for one another is just as alive as it has ever been. . . just manifesting itself in a different way right now.  I'm thankful.

Enjoy!