absence makes the heart grow fonder

i am in the middle of writing a where-the-heck-i-have-been-this-last-week blog...but i wanted to share something else with you real quick...

"absence makes the heart grow fonder"...its true.

i left the tour early and then went to LA with Beth and then home for a couple of days in seattle...and didn't see Shawn for 2 weeks...to the day...not that anyone was counting! *grin* it was the longest we have spent apart since we married in may. it was excruciating. i can't believe we did that regularly for almost 10 months while we dated and were engaged. no wonder we got married so quickly- who wants to live like that?!?!?!

we spent a week apart when my grandma passed...we had been married a couple of months then and we missed each other a lot but nothing like this last time. there's really something to that whole 'one flesh' thing. and in our experience, it grows.

so he picked me up from the airport last tuesday and i just couldn't let go of him. i think i miss his face the most...i like the way it smells. we only had about 10 hours together in nashvegas before i was heading to FL with my mom and two of her sisters... we left the airport and went to a friend's apartment where he made me dinner (all my favorites!) and sang me a new song... talk about being on cloud nine.

i felt like the most loved wife in the world. men, never underestimate the power of making your wife feel special. most of life is lived in the 'everyday' moments- laundry, errands, banking, working- and that's beautiful in its own way, but no one's saying there's not something to soft candlelight!