Hi MamaBear, Your respect and love for your H is always so inspiring to me. And you are a size 2??!!!! I had such a different picture of you, being as strong as you are. You pack a big wallop in that little frame. I am so impressed.

I really like the suggestions you got, to spice it up a bit with your H. It is so easy to fall in to a "kid-dominant" lifestyle. I think it is really really important for you to keep inserting your M as the priority. What good role modeling that will be too! I thnk it is OK to say to the kids, "Mama and daddy need some alone time tonight" and to take it. I can totally picture you with champagne in the bath together. Sometimes it is difficult to re-stimulate those exciting romantic possibilities when they haven't been around for a while. It will feel like sticking your neck out, you may feel self conscious. That's OK! Keep doing it until it feels natural. Like a game, always fun, always fresh, always new. See what you can create.

Have you ever tried sleeping in your bed with your head at the bottom and your feet at the top, or sideways? Remember when there was no such thing as sleeping on the same side you always sleep on, because it was different evry time? And how about pitching a tent in the yard for camp out?

I am picturing you two having an awful lot of fun. Keep up your spirits mama. He said ILY!!!!!! I think you are one lucky Mama. Everything is gonna be fine. You just keep your heart open and your playfullness alive!! I am rooting for you, Mama. You are definitely on the right track, in every way.

PositivelyListening
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When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller