Crazy crazy super crazy

Well, it's official, we've gone and lost our minds completely. My lovely husband decided at 4 p.m. EST, a mere 2 hours before our flight home to completely throw all care and what little money we have to the winds and drive home from Cleveland, Ohio. This is the craziest thing he's thrown my way since he got all unpredictable and asked me to get married on a weekend back in 2007 without any real plans of where or how. He's done it again and I'm trying like hell to get my mind wrapped around all the things that have to get taken care of in order for us to do this; begging the pet sitter to stay at least 3 more days, calling work to say I am going to use up all my vacation days thank you very much, making sure basic bills are paid online before we get in the range of butt ass nowhere for WiFi access...you know, the usual. I'm freaked out and stressed that this is going to blow our savings account down the tube, but also just a wee bit excited.

I've never traveled across country and have always wanted to. I've never seen most of the United States outside west of the Rockies, other than through the windows of an airport. I can't think of anyone I would rather see amazing sights with than my very own gorgeous and oh so awesome husband (Rice has named her hubs the Ever Gorgeous Earl (EGE) and I might have to steal her adjectives :) Here is the best part about this...it's a once in a lifetime chance to really experience something special, something absolutely amazing with the person in this world who makes it all worth living and I really can't keep myself from feeling like this is one of those great Peter Pan adventures a la real life. To live would be an awfully big adventure.

We need this time to think and digest the struggles and hurts and hardships going on with his father and the siblings and the always present hard knocks of being in a family. It's been far too long since I felt these hurts since I haven't had a family of my own for some time, so it's overwhelming to me too, but it's so important that I am here for him, showing him that he's got plenty of room to feel what he feels right now-for once, it's not about me.

So we are driving 2400 miles home through middle America, and I am quietly giddy and loudly in love with Matty. I'm sorry I've been so quiet here, and when this is all through, I'll have hopefully a huge amount of pictures and stories to tell you all. For now, take everyone and do something totally unexpected. It's good for the soul.