Yes, I agree. Not full of excitement, but the weekend was in fact decent. Productive, actually, and that's always a good thing. \:\)

This coming Saturday will be a great one though! Ladies poker night at my sister's house . H will be working graveyard that night, so the kids are going to stay over at MIL's.

Some positives I want to note:

Last night, H and I were talking on the phone (he was at work), and we were discussing changes he would like to see happen. Now, I don't disagree with him on these specific issues, and I told him this. I do, however, disagree with his timeline. He expects everything to change immediately, and that's not being fair. Again, he's been out of the house for nearly 3 years, and after he left, he had his own way of doing things which differ from my ways. No biggie. But now that he's back, it's all got to change. *Sigh* Ok, fine.

The problem is this: He throws every little thing at me all at once that he'd like to see changed. "This has to go, that has to go, this needs to change, that needs to change, fix that, fix this......" IT IS OVERWHELMING!!! Sometimes I'm starting one 'project' but am made to feel like it's not happening quick enough. I should've started the next project 2 weeks ago!

Anyway, I told H last night why don't we start with one change at a time and slowly but steadily work from there. He said fine. First change, no more fast food for the kids. I said, "Done." (There are times when it's been convenient to just stop for fast food. We both know how crappy that stuff is, but yeah, it's so easy to just grab it and go when there's not enough time to cook due to work, after school activities, etc. It wasn't just me either. H was giving in, too.)

So we agreed on something. It's a start. Yay!

I gave the bathrooms a really good cleaning yesterday. Had been doing kind of a half a$$ job before that...ugh...and I think H noticed when he got home from work after midnight. His mood was a little nicer than usual. Well, nicer than it has been for the past couple of weeks. In the middle of the night, he rubbed my arm, kissed it, and mumbled something. I'm trying but can't remember - I was half asleep!

H got up for work at 6am this morning, took a shower, gave me a little rub on my back, and said he hoped I had a good day. I wished him one as well.

So, some small progress. Good way to start out the week! \:\)

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. ~ Joseph Campbell