Like most couples, Tom and I had certain "jobs" that we tended to do. For example, I generally did laundry and he usually did things like changing out the a/c filter, filled up the water softener salt, etc. After we got our gas fireplace hooked up a few years ago, Tom was the one who almost always started it so I had only done it once or twice. So with the ice storm this week, I wanted to go ahead and light it in case the power went out. I had to google how to do it because I had done it so few times that I could not remember how to do it. It just got me to thinking about all the new jobs I'll be taking on with Tom gone.
With Tom being so sick the last few years, a lot of those jobs have shifted to me or to someone who helps me out. I cannot carry 40 pound bags of water softener salt down the basement steps so either our friend Pat or our son Josh has done that. But today, I wanted to share a funny story about one of those jobs.
Several years ago, we had a mouse and had put out sticky traps and caught it. Tom asked me what I wanted him to do with it. I told him to just consider me a "mob wife". I knew there were bodies, but I didn't want to know what happened to them. LOL. After Tom got sick, I told him that I really missed being a mob wife when I had to take care of things like that. When I hit a bird with my car and the bird was caught in my grill, I had to take care of it. That was pretty much the grossest thing I have ever done.
I think these are the types of things you don't realize will have such an impact on your life when your loved one is gone.
With Tom being so sick the last few years, a lot of those jobs have shifted to me or to someone who helps me out. I cannot carry 40 pound bags of water softener salt down the basement steps so either our friend Pat or our son Josh has done that. But today, I wanted to share a funny story about one of those jobs.
Several years ago, we had a mouse and had put out sticky traps and caught it. Tom asked me what I wanted him to do with it. I told him to just consider me a "mob wife". I knew there were bodies, but I didn't want to know what happened to them. LOL. After Tom got sick, I told him that I really missed being a mob wife when I had to take care of things like that. When I hit a bird with my car and the bird was caught in my grill, I had to take care of it. That was pretty much the grossest thing I have ever done.
I think these are the types of things you don't realize will have such an impact on your life when your loved one is gone.
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