Pool Day

We arrived back home around 4:00 AM Sunday morning, but Russ and I were NOT ready for our vacation to end.  Once we finally woke up from a wonderfully sound sleep in our own bed, we decided to make our first summer trip to the pool!

My Pool Diva

Surprisingly, it wasn't crowded. We were able to enjoy a few quite moments reading, relaxing, and talking to each other.  Of course, I may have had time for a tweet or two...

Please excuse, what appears to be, my birthing position!  Oh my!

I am SO incredibly grateful Russ is past the most stressful days of his schooling and residency.  I realize his specialty now calls for a different type of focus and "stress"...but as a wife, I am forever thankful he chose radiology!  This summer is the first summer he has thoroughly enjoyed in a long time.  This is the first summer he has been able to really relax I think.  He works long hours occasionally...and he hasn't begun to moonlight yet.  That will come next month I believe.  But, for now, I am enjoying this schedule.  I have friends who don't have the same sentiments.  There are a few reasons for this...one being the program their husbands are in.  It also helps that I am and was raised to be pretty independent.  This doesn't mean I know how to do everything.  Not at all!  It just means I don't mind...in fact, I enjoy...time alone.  I don't mind spending the night alone or going on trips alone while Russ is working.  Sure, I miss him.  But I use that time as "me time."  And I have come to enjoy it.

Not sure how I got off on that subject.  Back to the pool!  When looking at pictures on the way home from Florida, Russ referred to Kristin and me as "beach angels."  I found it so funny when he referred to me a "pool princess."  It's the little things that make me laugh.

Thankful, once again, for a sunny day with a fun husband!  Mindful that thanksgiving produces JOY, I am thankful for the daily happenings these days...and the small things that really matter.