While there are many unwanted surprises and changes in schedule when you are married to a chef, let’s be honest, there are some nice surprises as well.
For the last few months my husband has been not only the Executive Chef of the restaurant but the interim General Manager. For those of you in the industry, no words are needed to describe the challenges of that. With these added responsibilities his hours and days off have shifted a bit. While the hours have still been CRAZY, he’s been off on Fridays (unheard of!!) and occasionally home in time for dinner.
As I was making dinner the other night he called to say he was about 20 minutes away from home. Yeah! What a nice surprise!
So after a quick glance around the house to make sure there were no piles of laundry on the bed and no toys to trip on, I finished up dinner just in time for us all to sit down as a family and eat! (Fortunately this was an evening where I was not doing breakfast for dinner or random leftovers!)
The meal was not the best part of this surprise. It was what happened after. . . 45 minutes of piano playing and dancing around the playroom as a family. (And just to clarify, it was the kids dancing, not us.)
Is this a glimpse of what a “normal” night would be with a 9-5 job? This is happening just a few days after my older daughter’s meltdown about Daddy’s crazy hours. While that thought entered my head for a second, I immediately sent it out and left the messy kitchen and all the dishes and sat down next to my husband at the piano and watched the girls dance around to the different styles of music he was playing.
Free advertising for Chefwear . . . lol.
Why ruin an amazing moment as a family by wishing it could happen more often? It was happening then! And I loved every minute of it!
The evening was full of laughing, dancing, wondering why anyone in their right mind would write something in the key of B (that’s me talking not my husband), and lots of fun as a family!
At the beginning of the day, I had no idea the night would end like this. But it did! Thank you God for this break from our normal daily routine and life. It’s just what we needed!
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