Day 132: New Normal?

I was washing the dishes tonight while Justin was outside mowing the lawn.  He had started it before I got home from work, took a break for dinner, and then went back out to finish up before it got too dark.  I watched some TV (currently a Gilmore Girls marathon), got jello ready for my play group tomorrow, and started the dishes.  It all sounds simple enough right?  About half way through the dishes  I realized how weird it all felt.

Justin and I haven't had the most "typical" relationship in the spending-time together sense.  His schedule and my schedule never really allowed for more than a night a week and a weekend day/night for us to be together.  This January he stopped working at his second job and our entire life got switched around.  

I will say that it surprised how much effort it took to adjust to being home together so much.  It wasn't as easy as I'd thought it should be; but any adjust requires some degree of work.  Tonight seemed like a reward for that work.  It was nice to have time to do something as silly and un-fun as the dishes while Justin and was working in the yard.  Neither of us felt like we were wasting our only time together doing things that kept us apart.  I like our new routines, and I'm grateful for our "new normal."