Here I sit with an unfamiliar feeling on an oh-so-familiar night.... Almost 10 years of marriage and 3 kids later. I still don't know what it feels like to have a 'traditional' marriage. And maybe, a traditional marriage doesn't actually exist. You know what I mean? The whole, leave-it-to-beaver-dream-marriage: Husband and wife wake up together. Husband goes to work. Wife attends to house and children Husband comes home Eat dinner as a family Bedtime as a family. Go to bed with husband, at the same time. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. I know it is almost a taboo thing to want in this feminist era. But this was the dream for me. However, I also signed up for cop-wife-life. And that is anything but Leave-it-to-Beaver. Over the past years, I have learned to make lemonade out of lemons. I have learned to manage my lonely nights with wine and Netflix. I have embraced the pros of our flipped schedule. And the fact that I have the flexibility in my jobs to be ho...
The New Adventures of the Growing Abbott Family