In just under two months (59 days to be exact), Cara and I will be headed off to Europe for our Honeymoon which also involves a celebration of three years of marriage. We call it our Honeymoon because the trip we took to Nashville after our wedding is categorized as Minimoon and this August is THE BIG TRIP. Off to London first with three days to explore the royals, double decker buses and why there are so many jokes about English food.
After that is the real fun; a short train ride to Paris where we will spend five entire days loving everything we see, eat, touch and are around. In preparation for this, we lined up a list of movies with a Paris, France theme to watch leading up to our trip. And on this lazy Sunday we are watching Julia/Julie, a lovely movie that intertwines a series of wonderful cooking dishes with some very interesting locations.
And now all I can think about is making some wonderful dish, drinking coffee from a french coffee press and enjoying the nice weather we are having.
My marital half is scrolling through her iPhone and becoming increasingly frustrated that the Netflix DVD is sometimes skipping out on the audio. All of which can lead to one of those fights a couple can have when they have been together for the better part of a decade. You know the one, where in 30 seconds you go through a rainbow of emotions:
- What are you doing?!?!
- I said to fix it this way!!!!
- I tried it that way AND IT DIDN'T WORK. So I'm trying it this way.
And then you both sit there, feeling angry, then bitter, then letting the love fill your heart again and realizing how utterly small an argument about audio/visual concerns is in your life. Such is what I consider to be the tying theme to our blog name as this truly is part of the cuts and scrapes of newlywed love and life.
Through this all we make breakfast from a kitchen pantry that is in desperate need of a grocery store trip. We were able to piece together a makeshift breakfast sandwich with eggs, flour tortillas, salsa verde, shredded cheese and hot sauce (that last part was just on mine - Cara can't stand the heat).
Watching a movie where people are cooking and eating Julia Child recipes, reacting with such joy, will really make you hungry regardless of any recent makeshift egg concoction. For now we keep our roles the same: both wanting such delicious food right now, Cara face down in her iPhone, Sadie asleep next to me on the coach and myself sitting here, face down in the computer. All of this is wonderful, quick fights included, because they remind and refresh me on what really matters.
I still want food.
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