I imagine other people have typical evenings like this: come home from work, eat dinner together, watch some TV, go to bed.
I’m not sure if Jason and I have EVER had an evening like that. We’re always running around doing this or that … working late, running to the hardware store or grocery store, doing freelance graphic design or music recording projects. Sometimes we eat dinner together but it’s often at 8 or 9. And maybe one night a week we catch up on our favorite shows through Hulu (24, The Office, Modern Family). Our wind-down-relax time rarely starts before 11pm.
The other night I was thinking about what a “typical” night looks like for us and I decided to snap a picture of what we were both doing right before our late dinner break.
Jason was installing a new bowl sink in the guest bathroom. The teal glass one was pretty but impractical – it has about 7 chips in after 3 years. (Only one of which was made by Jason or me.)
I was cutting and packaging wedding invitation orders for my etsy shop.
Will we ever have simple evenings and neat-and-tidy lives? Probably not. That’s why I’m one good beach vacation away from a quarter life crisis.
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was that bath tile reglazed? if so, who did it? wanting to have that done in hall bath in home in inglewood. thanks.
yes but it was done before we purchased our house so I don’t know who did it.
Oh Martina, it will ALL change when you have your babies! 🙂 Not that that’s a bad thing. I kinda love the downtime that comes with having children who need naps and bedtimes.
Susan, I think all the time – “What are we going to do when we have kids?! Our lives are already so hectic!” I guess when you have a baby you drop everything else (maternity leave?) and then gradually start adding things back in until there’s no more room. We’ll find out when it happens I guess! 🙂
as long as josh keeps working his current job, we’ll have dinner after 830 at least 4x a week…and he doesn’t get out of work until 8, so i really need to find some sort of productive hobby to do while i wait for him!
Hey, I know … you could have a baby! 😉 Kidding. Just had it on my mind after reading/replying to Susan’s comment. No pressure – enjoy being a married couple for as long as you want!
You’ll find a way to make it work! Things will change & shift to allow it. My sister has 2 young boys, a full-time job plus a per diem contract job & her husband works 50 hrs a week too. They eat dinner at 8pm even with kids! (and… thank goodness for my parents being close by her! don’t tell her I said that.)