Every night before I go to bed, I set out a tea mug with an Earl Grey tea bag in it, a cereal bowl, a large cereal spoon, mulivitamin jar and the cod liver oil jar.
I am usually quite comotose in the morning, so these small tasks make it easier to cope with waking up. I don't have to fiddle with the cupboards - I simply have to click on the kettle.
And so, in my morning state, I did what I do every morning. Go and turn the kettle on before I get in the shower. Then, when I get out of the shower, I can go and fill my mug and let the tea stew while I get dressed.
By the time I dressed, the tea is usually done and then I can remove the tea bag, add the milk - or the soya milk that I'm attempting to like but it is so difficult - and eat my cereal - which I don't really like but I know is good for me and therefore will eat.
But this morning, for some reason, I was too asleep and forgot to turn the kettle on. I was dressed before I even made it into the kitchen.
And so, I turned the kettle on. Left the kitchen to get my bag ready.
I came back to the kitchen to fill my tea mug when I realized that there was already tea in the mug. I had to stop.
Did I already do this? Was I so asleep this morning that I actually already made myself a cup of tea and totally forgot about it?
And then it hit me. He has been doing things like this lately for me.
Filling up my water glass that has lime and lemon that I like to keep in the fridge so that when I open the door, there it is. Full. Ready for me to drink.
Putting away my clothes on my side of the bed and making it because I am in too much of a rush - and usually still half asleep - in the morning to do so.
I have always joked with him that just because he doesn't drink tea (or coffee or pop or juice really - it's either water or beer) doesn't mean he couldn't make me a cup once in awhile. He would always laugh and tell me that that would never happen.
But this morning it did. Just because.
And there, in my sleepiness, I smiled and beamed.
Love makes you do things for no reason at all. I can't believe after almost a decade that I love him more then ever.
I am usually quite comotose in the morning, so these small tasks make it easier to cope with waking up. I don't have to fiddle with the cupboards - I simply have to click on the kettle.
And so, in my morning state, I did what I do every morning. Go and turn the kettle on before I get in the shower. Then, when I get out of the shower, I can go and fill my mug and let the tea stew while I get dressed.
By the time I dressed, the tea is usually done and then I can remove the tea bag, add the milk - or the soya milk that I'm attempting to like but it is so difficult - and eat my cereal - which I don't really like but I know is good for me and therefore will eat.
But this morning, for some reason, I was too asleep and forgot to turn the kettle on. I was dressed before I even made it into the kitchen.
And so, I turned the kettle on. Left the kitchen to get my bag ready.
I came back to the kitchen to fill my tea mug when I realized that there was already tea in the mug. I had to stop.
Did I already do this? Was I so asleep this morning that I actually already made myself a cup of tea and totally forgot about it?
And then it hit me. He has been doing things like this lately for me.
Filling up my water glass that has lime and lemon that I like to keep in the fridge so that when I open the door, there it is. Full. Ready for me to drink.
Putting away my clothes on my side of the bed and making it because I am in too much of a rush - and usually still half asleep - in the morning to do so.
I have always joked with him that just because he doesn't drink tea (or coffee or pop or juice really - it's either water or beer) doesn't mean he couldn't make me a cup once in awhile. He would always laugh and tell me that that would never happen.
But this morning it did. Just because.
And there, in my sleepiness, I smiled and beamed.
Love makes you do things for no reason at all. I can't believe after almost a decade that I love him more then ever.
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-chlamygirl