Visions of Grandeur...

Did I spell that right ? You know what ? I'm at work and it's 1:30am . I don't even care if I spelled that right.

Okay first of all. A local store here was giving away a free necklace. Totally signed up to get one of those. Well today it came in the mail. I totally love it. $25 necklace for free? Don't mind if I do.

Now to my real blog.

Today Gregg was doing his homework. He had to analyze the lyrics to a Bob Dylan song. He , for the life of him could not figure out what B.D. could have possibly been trying to communicate in that song. Which is how I got enlisted to help. So after reading the lyrics and listening to the song twice I told him what I thought B.D was trying to say.

This got us into one interesting conversation. About how when we were teenagers we thought we knew everything. Now that we're married , we realize things aren't as easy as we thought they'd be. We've also realized that we know nothing and that we have a whole lot to learn. Which had me telling him. " I think I came into marriage with unrealistic expectations." He pointed out that they weren't unrealistic , but that I probably didn't think it'd be as much work as it is.

He was right. I came into marriage thinking my house would always be clean , the dishes would always be done. That I'd have so much time and energy to do fun things with my kids. Which isn't an unrealistic expectation. It's just a LOT of work. Between work and having a baby , the housework doesn't always get done because I'm too tired. And because I'm so tired after working , I don't get to play with Zoe as much as I'd love to.

I say that I didn't think it would be a lot of work and I honestly didn't think it would be , because my mom made it look so easy. Gregg says that he thinks I thought it would just happen like BAM , and I guess I kind of did , because that's how it seemed like it happened at home. I mean of course we did chores , but still. My mom always made the house clean , and made it look easy. Like it just happened.

There was a point to this story , when I was planning it out in my head at 3pm this afternoon , but like I said , I'm sleepy and it's 1:30am , and that point has completely escaped me. So , I hope this entertains you and makes you think about stuff that maybe you thought was different , but maybe are learning isn't quite how it really is. Okay bye.