Babymoon Dreams

I really want to get away.

I can't remember the last time that my husband and I got away, just the two of us. We got out of town to visit our family members in south Alabama at the beginning of my pregnancy, but we stayed with family and did mostly family things (read: no time alone). Plus, I was feeling like trash, as morning sickness had just hit.

As far as just an overnight getaway, just the two of us? It was probably last summer, when we went on our road trip to celebrate our graduations. I would LOVE to have just a two-night getaway somewhere before the baby comes. I know that it's nowhere even remotely in our budget (not even if we look really hard)...but we've both been under so much stress that I think it would be good for us to have a few nights away. My poor husband works SO hard, and all this job searching and moving talk is very hard on him.

He's been working extremely hard to help the youth of our church raise money to go to camp this summer. For the past month, we've had youth fundraisers almost every Saturday, so his schedule has been: get up at 5 am on Fridays to take the youth to breakfast and school, come home, sleep for a few hours, get up and get everything organized for the next day's fundraiser, go to work all night on Friday, go directly to the youth event on Saturday, work all day, tear down, take all the kids home (it's about 3 pm by this point), go to sleep for a few hours, go to work all Saturday night, go directly to church on Sunday-stopping to pick up youth on the way, drop them all off, come back home, and crash til it's time to go BACK to work again. This particular weekend, he was awake for thirty four hours with only a two hour rest in between.

The man deserves a break, don't you think? Not to mention, he's being very attentive to a pregnant wife and searching frantically for a better-paying job.

I would love to be able to do something special for him. Even if we just went back to my hometown and stayed on the beach for two days, that would be fine--I don't need to travel far. I'd just like to be able to have a full day together. The downside of him working weekends is that we're NEVER off on the same days, so one of us is always headed to work when the other one is headed home. He gives so much to so many, and he's so rarely thanked for it. Working at the hotel, you deal with grouchy guests all the time...and as far as being the youth pastor, even a volunteer one--well, it's working with teenagers. It's not easy and you very rarely hear a "thank you." He deserves something so amazing and I'm determined to find a way to show him that he is appreciated...and to give him a break.