Way back in the day, when the husband and I were just getting used to him being gone for days at a time, he used to return with small little tokens of love for me.....just because. Now, him being gone is such habit that I am not sure how I'd get along if I knew any differently. He leaves, I hold down the fort, and now the only thing he returns with is a bag full of dirty clothes that gets tossed into the laundry room. That is life. That is how we roll. Maybe it is because with time comes change. We don't have to rely on one 10 minute phone call a day, for we now have cell phones and texting. There's no week long pause between the sight of his childrens' faces because now we have facebook and the ability to be "tagged" in their lives even when he's hundreds of miles away. And, now, the only exchange of gifts between the two of us often involves the phrase, "Hey, I purchased that app you wanted."
This little humming bird hangs in our room now. I don't know if the husband looks at it or if he sees what I do....all of the changes that time has brought...and the reminder of how much harder, yet simpler, things used to be.
And that he doesn't bring me hummingbirds anymore....
