Rockets

After you have been with a person for over half your life, it is hard to imagine that you find new reasons to fall in love with them all over again. But you do, again and again. I fall in love with my husband all over again each time I watch him father our children. He's a pretty terrific dad. He is hands on. He is loving. And he is fun.

We had a free summer weekend a few weeks ago. (A rarity indeed!) Chris made the spontaneous decision to take the boys to buy model rockets and build them. After the rockets were all built, launch was set for early the next morning.

Sleepy eyed and barely out of our pajamas, we trudged through a drizzly Sunday morning to the Whoville soccer field to the make shift launch pad.

The launch was a spectacular success:

I never, in a million years, would have conceived of a rainy morning spent exploding and chasing rockets. But it was perfect.

Just another reason to fall in love, all over again, with that sweet husband of mine.