The Executive's Wife

After much hard work and dedication, Chris's company has been growing. I am immensely proud of his success and even more happy that over the past two years, he has been able to add employees. (Employees who travel for him so he can stay home. Yea staying home! He still has to log some miles, but less miles can only be a good thing for family happiness.)

As another fantastic indication of his success, Chris's company was named to the Inc. 500 - a list of the 500 fastest growing privately owned companies in the U.S. He is number 315 on the list and I could not be more proud. I know how hard he works. It is a gift he is able to see hard and fast results for his hard work and dedication.

This week he headed to National Harbor, Maryland to attend the Inc. 500 conference. When he asked if I wanted to join him at the tail end of the conference to attend the awards ceremony and black tie gala, I jumped at the chance. And yes, I told him I couldn't wait to clap for him as he accepted his award. (But there was also a little part of my that got a little giddy at the thought of me in a hotel room alone all day long.)

And so this week, for Thursday and Friday, I got to be the Executive's Wife. It involved a cushy hotel room, much time alone and room service so I could lounge about in bed until ungodly hours of the day. It involved some shopping, a nice long walk and treating myself to lunch. It also involved reading as much as I wanted and taking naps just because I could.

I think I could get used to this Executive's Wife.

The black tie gala was superb. Chris got a very fancy award. We got to eat a gourmet meal and drink lots of wine.

But then, as with all things, the Executive's Wife vacation came to an end. Sigh. I returned to my life, which involves pre-dawn wake up times, grocery shopping and negotiating battles over light sabers. Maybe I could at least teach the kids to bring me room service? That'd be nice.