monday may 3, 2010

it's almost mothers day....

for the first time in a long time ari and i went to the movies this weekend and saw date night with steve carell and tina fey. i love tina fey, i want to be tina fey-funny, smart successful...she totally rocks. anyway, when you see a movie like that, one that "exposes" what becomes of a marriage...it's not all flowers and candy, romance and wooing....but getting through each day without killing eachother..and it makes you laugh, you realize that if there is a movie about it, it isn't just you!!! thank god, because i thought that i was the only one who made fun of her husband...obviously not, if IT'S IN A MOVIE...and i know the movie is not based on my life.....

recently, i got something in the mail that also made me realize that it isn't just my husband who needs a "nudge".....it is called the "guy's build it yourself guide to an amazing mother's day brunch." it is a step by step instruction booklet for men on how to make a brunch for their wives. It lists the "tools" needed, where to find the groceries(unfotunately it doesn't include to directions to a supermarket.. )There are also instructions on how to make a mimosa (sure, that is all my wife needs...more alcohol....and in the morning...)So clearly, my husband is not the only one who wouldn't be able to make brunch for me on his own. don't get me wrong, i know that i am still not getting a brunch because when i handed ari the manual, he laughed and said "what do you want me to do with this?" but it has instructions!! it has a picture of where the plate goes (but then the husband would have to know where the plates are in order to have a plate at all....)where the vase with the flower goes ( ha ha ha) where the croissant goes (honey, what's a croissant?) it is a well intentioned manual....but what do they say about the best intentions? ( i don't know...what do the say about the best intentions?)

so we take the good and the bad and we all have good and bad...(even me, though that is hard for me to admit...)and we take one day at a time and hope we live to see the next day and the day after that.....and hope that we laugh more than we cry...

happy monday