Reunion.

I really should be using Google Maps to find a Mr. Tire that's open early on Saturday mornings within walking distance of a coffee shop, but I'm putting it off just a few minutes.

Everyone else is at the Minnesota Catholic Homeschooling Conference and I'm not.  I would make a frowny face except that the reason I am not there is that my husband is actually HOME tonight.

 He has been on business travel for 16 out of the past 33 nights.    He will be leaving again soon for another series of trips.

I could have looked at it this way:  I've been doing a lot of single-ish parenting over the last month, and there's more coming up, and I could use a break.  And I could have headed off to the conference and left him with the children for a little breathing space.  And that would have been fun.  And totally understandable.

But it's also kind of nice to spend the afternoon having lunch together, and tidying up the house together, and doing the giant quarterly nonperishable-goods shopping trip together, and taking everybody to the gym together, and going out to  the kids' choice of restaurant together (The new Asian buffet!  The one they've been begging to go to for months!  Where 3 out of 4 of my offspring decided to pile their plates with pepperoni pizza!), and looking forward to maybe having a drink together at the end of the day, after we send the kids to bed. 

Yeah, I think I could go for that.