Today I babysitted for a friend. Well I hung out at her house while she rested. She has a nasty flu that has wiped out all her energy. Her kids are watching more TV than she’d like because she doesn’t have any energy to do anything at the moment. My role was to get them off the TV and get her to bed.

When she was finally in bed I realized it was already time to pick up my husband from a friend’s house. He had been roped into helping them paint their new flat. I told my friend that I had to go soon – she was sad as she hadn’t got the rest she needed yet. We then decided for me to take her children with me and bring them back in a few hours.

I texted my husband my plans – mostly I wanted to know if there were any safety reasons why I couldn’t bring the girls with me to pick him up – and went to retrieve him. We had a lovely relaxing evening of connect 4, feeding horses, watching goats, and making a simple dinner. We had the neighbors over for the meal and then it was more than time to get the kids back home for bedtime.

On the way back to our house my husband said that he was filled with this warm feeling when he saw the text. My wife and the kids were coming to see him at work was the thought that came to him and he said how much he wanted to have his own family.

Sometimes I feel that I want this a touch more than him, but tonight it was different. He wanted it just as much if not more.