The BEST Places, please!

So in my post-election weariness (please….please…no more………), I decided to look for something else on CNN.  Imagine my joy at finding mass graves, child abduction, and aircraft disasters.  It almost makes one long for politics.

But yet!  Here was something decent, The 10 Worst Places to Flirt.  Not bad, not bad.  But too easy I think.  What about the BEST places?   I think those of us married types with young children need to focus on the best places, as the world of “keepin’ it fresh for ya” as my husband says can try to close in on us like shrink-wrap daily.  For example, on my list right now one of the worst places would be in the bathroom with the Elmo potty seat.  I’m just sayin’.

Here’s what I have — and the floor is open, do tell, the people are starving for some good news!

  1. While cooking – sauces are a nice touch.
  2. While doing yard work — I have heretofore mentioned my admiration for his carrying of heavy equipment.
  3. While passing in a tight hallway.
  4. When calling to check on what anyone needs….from the store or otherwise.
  5. When walking in the snow.
  6. When running in the rain.
  7. In front of your kid (literally and figuratively over his or her head).
  8. During a nearly unbearable social event when you need to remember you’re going home together.
  9. In church.
  10. Right after you pull up the covers.

I have a friend who talks about the idea of  “catch a buzz and connect” when she needs time with her husband.  You can catch that buzz with a bottle of wine, or you can just catch it by shutting out the rest of the world and being together.  Sometimes we just burn old cardboard boxes in a homemade fire pit and listen to the crickets in the vast forest behind our house.

However you get it done, enjoy.  Love is good and life is short.

Griffin Egg Omelettes

"But one griffin hath the body more great and is more strong than eight lions, of such lions as be on this half, and more great and stronger than an hundred eagles such as we have amongst us." - Mandeville

This statue of a griffin stands in the dappled sunlight of my parents’ front yard.

Half-lion (king of the beasts) and half-eagle (king of the birds), griffins were believed to mate for life.  Between its legendary fidelity, strength, courage, and mystery, it seems an apt symbol not only for the dual nature of Christ (for which it is also known) but for something less well-known yet quite human and divine:  my parents’ marriage.

It would be inappropriate for me to divulge all of the magical things I know about these two people.  What I will tell you in the strictest confidence of the Internet is that as I pulled out of their driveway Sunday afternoon my mother handed me a dozen free-range organic eggs, and whispered, “Your father made me the most lovely omelette with these this morning.  He thought we didn’t have any milk and made the omelette with melted ice cream.  It was kind of flat.  And sweet.  But it was very nice………”

I leave you with the mystery of true love, and with hopes that you have a magical holiday Monday.