Meet In The Middle

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That trip to Nebraska…

Time with that birthday girl…chatting…connecting…renewing…it’s great…warms a mama’s heart great…but there’s a perk to that trip that’s kind of a surprise…

That visit…that weekend visit is the only time all year one of us…gets a good night’s sleep…usually three good sleeps and it’s nice…so very nice…

That mattress of hers some foam thing delivered in a box…is a dream…so comfy…so squishably comfy…the bedroom dark…the room cool…almost too cool…and we sleep…gasp…past 7…

Kind of like the old days…like the way she grew up…like the way that mother of hers grew up…and sometimes…it’s just what a body needs…literally…

And so it is…friendship…marriage…family…that thing we call compromise…one likes it hot…one likes it cold…we meet in the middle…light or dark…meet in the middle…

And it works…wouldn’t trade early morning coffee with that man of mine for anything in the world…even if it means taking a nap later in the day…

Meet in the middle…why not?…it’s what love is all about…
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And that husband of mine…agrees…