Finding the Time

The clocks changes yesterday, taking an hour out of my day but adding one hour to MG's. He tells me, come spring, he will get it back but that doesn't help or make a 13 hour shift any less for him this week. Whoever it is who decides at what point the actual hour changes, has no regard for those poor people who have to work a night shift and on a Sunday at that.
The consequences of that one hour are that MG is even more tired and gets less sleep than he normally does, which at the best of times is far from adequate, so today he is running on empty yet again and still has tonight and tomorrow night to go before he gets a break again. He is attempting to alter his shift pattern a little to ease the stress on him a bit and also to give us more time together, not just for He and i but also for the girls who at present , rarely see him at all some weeks as the times they are around he is either at work, just leaving, just coming home as they are going to school or is asleep. Not the ideal way to run family life but as i have said so many times before, at present we have little choice, so we make do the best we can.
Time has never been that great for us, we always seem to be playing "catch up" from one week to the next so try our best to make full use of what is available to us, even to the point of trying to see to it that on the rare occasions that MG is at home, even one night in every few week, that we are alone so that we can at least have the freedom to get into our M/s a little bit.
Having made the commitment not to "play" while the children are here, we have to make the best use of any times that might be available for us to do that. And as luck would have it, this week, MG will be home on Friday evening and both the girls will be at their fathers for the weekend so, with any luck, unexpected circumstances prevailing, we might (fingers crossed) get to experience some real M/s activities this weekend.
It has been a while and i am sure that any M/s couple that have children will appreciate it when i say that these times are rare and we count ourselves lucky that the girls do go to their fathers on some evenings when both MG and i are in the same place at the same time, affording us this rare opportunity.

Anticipation of the forthcoming evening will begin to build come about Wednesday and we will make a point of increasing that with little triggers that spark each of us. Anticipation is a wonderful thing as it grows as time passes and by the time the actual evening arrives we should both be on a high before the evening starts adding to the atmosphere and allowing us to get some depth (we hope) into our play.
That is of course, unless something comes up, something changes our plans or one of the girls goes sick or or or or or................. Be quiet woman...Don't tempt fate !!!!