Court in Session

"Well, I guess you're a grown up now."  Hubs said this to me on the car ride home from downtown where I'd been serving my civic duty as the member of a jury for the past three days.  Clarification, I was selected to serve on a jury Thursday after the day long affair on Wednesday when you're moved all over and told to wait a lot and sit for many hours on end.  It's the sitting that gets me.  My knees start to ache.  I'm not made to sit.

Twelve other upstanding citizens and I were selected to jury a criminal case involving drugs and possession of drugs and police officers.  Honestly, it was really interesting.  I learned more about the judicial system than I thought I would, realized I knew more about the judicial system than I thought I did, and met people I would probably never have met otherwise.  As an inquisitive, people person, all that adds up to a good time for me. 

But, it definitely threw off the schedule of our lives for the week, and it made me reflect on the domestic/life system Hubs and I have in place...and how great it is.

Things I Realized about My Marriage and Life While Serving Jury Duty; a Brief Account:

--Hubs wakes up everyday to drive down town and work in an office.  After day two of getting up and going down town to 'work' in an office type setting (indoors, sitting a ton, bad lighting), I WAS EXHAUSTED.  My hubby works hard for us.  I'm blessed to work part time at a job where I can be active and look out a window whenever I want to.

--being away from the house for the hours between seven a.m. and five p.m. make it difficult to maintain order and lack of clutter throughout the home.  I'm usually home enough during the week to keep things pretty tidy and clean, the way I like it.  I like to tidy and clean when Hubs is at work, so that I can spend time with him when he gets home.  I know that many wives don't have this luxury.  I am so blessed to be able to maintain our home on my schedule with plenty of time leftover for being with Hubs.

--Hubs doesn't use drugs of any kind and doesn't lie to me.  This is great.  Once again, I am blessed.

--My life was interrupted for three days, but the man who was convicted of the crimes he committed will spend a long time with his life interrupted.  Perspective in place, check.

--I can talk to anyone.  Like, it's okay to talk to anyone. 

--Everyone has a story.  Each story is unique and beautiful in its own way, just like the person each story is attached to. 

--I also had all kinds of thoughts about my relationship with God in comparison to what I was a part of in the judicial process...but that went way deep and would be way long to write about here. 

--I don't get tired of being with husband.  I can do anything and go anywhere with him.  He's good company, that guy.  Even at seven in the morning when he doesn't like to talk much.

~the wifey