Simple Pleasures :)

Today and yesterday I had a lot of simple pleasure moments. Roy and I woke up Saturday morning and cuddled with our boston terrier in bed for a few min; tickled and wrestled a bit, then packed and left for our road trip to Utah at a leisurely pace. It was nice to just be with each other and just enjoy my husband being next to me and have nothing to hurry up and get ready for.
As you become an adult and get married you have these things called responsibilities. You get up and go to work when you don't feel like it. You wash dishes when you would rather leave them in the sink. You do laundry when you would rather just lay around in your pj's all day. Instead of go out to dinner or a date, you make a special dinner and rent a movie (because you are trying to save up a ridiculous amount of money for IVF to have babies....but I digress). You make car payments and pay the electric bills. You make the bed and walk the dogs.
And I think lately our lives have been nothing but all of that. Just doing grown up things. We haven't stopped to enjoy life's simple pleasures. It doesn't help that we have been dealing with incompetent doctors lately that have screwed a lot of things up. There have been a lot of frustrations and not enough fun. So Saturday we packed our car and got the dogs ready at a leisurely pace. We made sure to eat a good breakfast, and did laundry and dishes before we left. We drove the 14 hours to Utah and talked all the way there. We just enjoyed being together. We could have driven all the way there only to turn around and go back for all I cared. My husband and I were stuck in a car together for 14 hours with nothing to do but talk and play road games. I was happy. :)
We got to Utah at about 6 AM and slept for a couple of hours before waking up and we played games a lot of the day. We took the dogs on a nice, long walk. It was a beautiful day, so we decided to go get drive through for lunch. It really was just an excuse to drive with the windows down singing at the top of our lungs to whatever came up on Roy's ipod.
It was so sunny, and driving the familiar streets was wonderful. We both love this state a lot, and had a fun time remembering when we lived here. We drove around with the music up so loud we were singing at the top of our lungs and we still couldn't hear ourselves. There won't be doing any of that once we have kids, so we are enjoying it now. Something about the sun on our skin, and the wind in our hair, and singing to good music was just bliss. I could have gone on like that forever. I would love to just freeze those 20 min in time and put them in a drawer somewhere to relive over and over again. It was just me, and just him, and we were so happy.
I know when we get home we'll have to get depressed again because we will have to try to get sent to the right doctor; we'll have to tell our story over and over again to doctor after doctor who each has a different suggestion for what we should do to try and get pregnant, we will have to worry about getting Roy in to the chiropractor and massage therapist for his neck, we will worry about trying to save up enough money to hopefully get pregnant, and we will have to clean the house as soon as we get back because we didn't do it before we left. We'll go back to the rain, and the medical referrals, and real life.
But today was a good day. And it's a day that I hope I'll remember for a very long time, until I hold on to the memory of a better day. Today we didn't talk about babies or pregnancy or doctors. We didn't talk about his work or what project he's going to be working on when he gets back. We just held hands and played with the dogs all day. It was wonderful. One of life's simple pleasures that reminded me why I am so happy to spend time and all eternity with my best friend.  :)