Dear Husband:

We are currently enduring week number 3 of you being gone. Three down and LOTS more to go.

We miss you. But we are sucking it up.

We have tried to fill the empty space with activities like:

Happy hour runs to Sonic. (A lemon Berry slush is still just as tasty with 3 inches of snow on the ground)

Trips to Ikea. (Don't worry. I didn't buy too much.)

                           quick question: what exactly would be too much?

Crafts. Lots and lots of crafts: (okay, so this is nothing new)

New and good music on itunes: (I ignored Rollingstone magazine's advice and I'm glad I did.)

Garden planning: (I really don't want to be doing this one alone)

Visits to the zoo: (with only one near fatal accident!)

Lots and lots of redbox movies. (I am not sure if I can forgive the public for not warning me about how painful Tron would be to sit through.)

And any other extra ordinary activity we can come up with:

What's on our docket this week:

Picnics at the park

Tulip festival

Baking

Planting tomatoes in the garden

Sidewalk chalking

Jump roping

Scootering

Trips to the library

Thanking Heaven above for spring weather.

And making fun of  you behind your back. 

It's totally good natured, of course. 

We are finding reasons to laugh and 

doing our best to ignore the empty chair at the dinner table,

but it doesn't really work.

With love, 

The best Tetris Competition you have ever come across. AKA, your wife.