Missing the Number Ones

We sort of got a teeny tiny bit spoiled.  After moving here, we got to see Number One Son and Number One Wife… a LOT!  It was great!  They loved coming and working (which was really, really great since we had/have a lot of work) here on the farm.  We loved having them.  But Number One Wife got a wonderful job at Whitworth University, so with Number One Son a firefighter, their weekends are not as free and easy as before.

I really loved have Number One Wife here as she notices things…especially things that have gotten better…little things that a lot of the other family misses, or is maybe not quite as ‘appreciative’ of the change as I am…say for instance…new kitchen knobs.  Seriously, the rest of the family does not get ‘it’.  They especially did not get ‘it’ (my happiness and sense of ‘order’, ‘rightness’) over cleaning and organizing the pantry!  The pantry had been the collection pit of every stray thing.  The pantry finally looks good and has order, which is a wonderful thing, but it is always more fun to share these accomplishments with someone, and the rest of the family just sort of nod in a numb state and say, “yeah, it looks better” in an effort to be released by me to leave the pantry and go back to their lives.  I resorted to the only non-family member I had available to view how wonderful the pantry is now, Our Friend the Farmer.  He had come by to have supper and I might/maybe/perhaps not actually given him is supper or his beer or even let him sit down until he’d looked at the pantry, but still he played along, which I did appreciate and even shared that he’d cleaned out his junk drawer…it was a bonding moment.

But… still… I need the Number Ones… we have so much to catch up on… there is the new tool for my son to ride, which we’re hoping he does carefully and does not break it or hurt himself… all the little and big things we’ve accomplished which Number One Wife will see, a garage sale with quilting stuff to fit into the weekend…catching up on important stuff like hugs… oh, and a party to share and having them here will make it…even better!