week three

Yesterday we found out some great news. I won third place in the Moment Magazine annual short fiction contest.
We really needed some good news around here. Things have been tense lately. It seems like we spend an inordinate amount of time talking about money but not doing much to solve any of our problems.
Sunday night was intense. Jeff and I looked at each other and both realized that we are facing the biggest challenge of our marriage, really the first on that is threatening to destroy us, and realizing that it might. The crisis might win. Its teeth are still sharp enough to destroy what we've built together.
That's why the good news was so very welcome. We are good at good news. We know how to react to good news. We get good news in a way that we don't get bad news. And maybe that goes back to my point that we are both just too optimistic for this world. Either that or too stupid. And the good news just cheered us up, got us talking again.
Then of course there's the idea I had that on the off chance I got Moment I'd rethink speech therapy, but, well, we won't go there yet.
Once again I just have to marvel at how well the kids are adjusting. All kids should experience what Mira and Eli are experiencing right now. They are, before my very eyes, becoming better people. Less spoiled. Open to purely enjoying the best part of life. All of the stuff that we thought they wanted, turned out that they didn't. We created the monsters. Luckily we chased them away too, and for that it might have been worth it.