All over again. Seriously big sigh …

You know how you just get caught up in the same ol’ routines? Day in and day out. Stressin’ about this, stressin’ about that? We lead a pretty busy and somewhat complicated life and sometimes we just lose ourselves … our marriage, in all of the craziness.

For Christmas the past couple of years, I’ve given Curt a trip away for just the two of us. He loves it and hey, it’s just icing for me, right?

This year, I picked a place on the Turks & Caicos islands … beautiful! I’ve been to the islands twice before and stayed somewhere different, so this was fun to explore a new place.

We were instantly relaxed … seriously relaxed!

The place was quiet, pristine, private … totally private! Everyone stayed in private pavilions which were situated on I-don’t-even-know-how-many acres. And the pavilions were all nestled back in lush vegetation so you couldn’t see anyone else.

Here’s a photo of ours. There are three sides of full floor-to-ceiling glass walls, so you could see the views all around you. Seriously beautiful. {warning: I may use the word ‘seriously’ in this post way too much}

A view from our pavilion deck.

A view from our bathroom … our bed is just beyond this wall … you can see the seriously beautiful views we had.

A sunset {reflected off the window}. This is our little outdoor dining area. So the views weren’t spoiled, it was built-in … seriously genius!

The pavillion at night …

Me on our first night to dinner. Gotta love wearing a $19.00 old navy dress to a fancy-schmancy dinner place!

I surprised CJ one night with a beach cove dinner. Had his fav planned for the menu … anyone? anyone? You guessed it … cheeseburger and fries. I can just hear his mommy saying, “oh Curtie!”

Lastly, if you wanted privacy … they had this little wooden starfish that you hung on one of the lights on the path to your pavilion … how cute?

We had a seriously awesome time {okay, I think I’m done using seriously … I may have lost a few readers with that}. It was just so great, and so needed to get away and recharge our marital batteries.

We missed the kids terribly … but we were able to talk without being interupted, we slept, we laughed, we ate, we laid, we read, we kissed, held hands, walked, and had fun … with each other.

I think every marriage needs time away. Sometimes we’ll just take a weekend and head to Chicago if we can. I just think it’s so important for a marriage. It’s so easy to get caught up in the kids and the calendar that sometimes you lose sight of what is holding the whole thing together in the first place {after God that is …}.

Click here to see a few more photos. Now if you’ll excuse me … I’ve got a couple buckets of mail that need tending to …