Sometimes when I am at work, I just look at my phone and wish for a text from Satu. Most of our phone contact is really just about letting each other know that we are thinking about being together. There is no moment in my day when I would not prefer to be with my lovely wife, not a single second that wouldn't be better in her company.
Right now she is sitting next to me while I am typing and she is touching up her well staged pictures of tobacco pipes. We spent most of the day working outside together getting sawdust in our noses and dirt on our hands, and whenever we hadn't talked in a little while, one of us would pipe up and say "hi baby. " It is kind of our bird call.
Sometimes I imagine what alien observers would think of us. We must touch each other more often than most couples. She is always smoothing out my shirt or patting me on the leg. I am usually looking for an opportunity to walk into a hug. I think aliens would assume that we are one thing that can split itself. I often feel like she and I are really just one thing with two different laughs, two different singing voices and four hands that are always trying to settle somewhere on the body.
This weekend, Satu has put out all of our orange things and readied the house for fall. There are tiny pumpkins and colorful leaves everywhere. I really love having a house that belongs to both of us together that we chose and care for. It seems like the perfect place for our odd little family. It is usually filled with the smell of nice candles and small enough that I can hear my wife call her bird call from any room.
As the weather gets cooler, I feel even more lucky to have this warm home and beautiful wife to come home to. These days we linger in bed to have our morning coffee and she tucks her cold hands into my body. I know this is just a trick for warmth that she has learned from the cat, but never mind that. As she tucks little head against my shoulder, I'll wrap my arms around her and whisper "hey baby, hi sweet girl, hi honey. I love you."
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