The void.
I always feel the void whenever my hubby, Leif, isn’t beside me in bed.
Maybe it’s my inner Leif-dar.
In my bones, I feel absence of deep comfort that comes whenever he is present.
Let’s be honest: when you’re married to someone who is 6 foot 8, it’s hard to not notice when he is missing.
Dusting the sleep from the corners of my eyes, I pressed my hand against the rustle of sheets.
No Leif.
Was he in the pool at an early morning practice with his Master’s Swim Team? Or launching extra early into work?
And where was Hershey?
I made a snow angel in the bed. No furry nose emerged.
I scrolled through my inbox on my phone and read the following love note:
Hey Beautiful,
Hope you sleep well tonight. I prayed for you but decided to sleep upstairs after a couple poofs caused both Hershey and I to wake up. Love you and I’ll see you in the morning.
In His grip & for His glory,
Leif
Um. Wait. What did he mean by poof? Is a poof what I think a poof is?
Rut roh.
I crawled out of bed for Stumptown’s hairbender coffee. Leif greeted me in the kitchen with a long hug.
“Was I poofing?” I asked.
“It was nuclear,” Leif explained.
“After one particularly loud poof, Hershey decided he could no longer take sleeping beside you and came over to me. He wanted to come underneath the blanket, but I thought, No way I’m lifting up this blanket and letting what’s underneath here out. We both decided it was better to sleep upstairs.”
What did I eat to create jet propulsion? I wondered.
I had just started a new clean eating regimen which was high in protein and required six small meals a day. My diet included boiled egg whites, smoked salmon, cherries, apricots, protein shake, black beans, roasted Brussel sprouts, and skim milk.
All of that had percolated into the most powerful poofs ever.
But my favorite part was the loving way Leif let me know. It’s now one of my favorite love notes ever.
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Brussel sprouts+ black beans=poofs!!! ???
Deadly combination! Hahaha!
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Nicole neubeck
Hysterical!!! I can so relate. Daughter is a registered dietician and presently lives with us. VERY familiar with this type of eating AND THE RESULTS!!!??
Thank you For that u made my day with that. Thanks. I love your amazing inspiration and encouraging joy u have.
That was a neat way of expressing that. I’ll have to share that with my hubby as well. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your day!
Thanks, Joyce! Have a blessed day!
True love.❤️ My husband and I are not “cuddlers”, but have to be touching at least feet or hands. When he wakes super early for work, I have to wake up just to know he’s leaving. I didn’t say get up lol. Sometimes he doesn’t even know I’m somewhat awake and aware of his presence. When I do sleep thru his departure, I do the same as you. Stretch out my leg to the other side to feel if he’s there. It makes me feel alone when I wake up to an empty bed and didn’t actually know he left. Thank God for the comfort of our husband’s presence.
Last sentence = truth! Hugs!
This made me laugh out loud. What a sweet husband! 🙂
He really is! This still makes me laugh and feel loved every time I think of it.
I laughed out loud too!!! Then teared up. Very sweet and non judgmental!!! The dog action cracked me up!! My dog does the same – 😉
You really made my day! Some great laughter with my husband(:
Laughter is good for the soul. Come to think of it, so is confession! 🙂
I giggled so hard (at my desk in the President’s Office at a college) – very hard to do quietly.
My husband’s usual response is, I suppose you’re going to use the line, “I don’t know what I ate!” He knows me all too well.
Too Funny!, thanks for sharing
What a happy chuckle to start the week with, Margaret!
Thank you for sharing this love:)
Margaret, I know this is an older post but thank you for sharing it today. It made me “really” laugh out loud. I sure needed it. Just returned to the US after living in Africa for 7.5 months and trying to adjust to reverse culture shock. This made me feel normal again! God bless you!
Thank you for “the Joy bomb!” I will have to consider that today and give that joy to someone else.
Hi Margaret…I’ve recently been “acquainted” with you thru the LIT event back in February. I’m loving truth-telling folk more and more..thank you for sharing your sweet love note with us!
this just made my day! Love reading your thoughts…. you are always so real. You have the ability to say things that we only think (and wish we could express) in such a humorous way. Thank you for the laughter this morning 🙂
Lol! Too funny! I do believe you can attribute those poofs to the dried apricots. They’re famous for sulfur proofing. You’ve got a gem of a husband. Thanks for sharing and making my day.
Needed that laugh badly!!!
The “poofs” in our bed usually come from the dogs. They are SBDs for sure. Occasionally my husband will chime in (not normally SBD) and they cause the dogs to come over to my side away from him. We just get a kick out of the dogs’ reactions to such things.
Thanks for sharing. Have a blessed day.
You are hysterical!! What a beautiful picture!! 6’8″ and your so tiny!! Sweeeeet!
Praying for you sweet girl and want you to know you rocked my spirit!!
Thank you for making me laugh!! So funny, so real and such, I don’t know, humanity-correct grace by a good natured hubby ~
I was laughing so hard reading this! I just started paleo and I had brussel, sprouts, eggs, and salmon! I have a poof problem myself. Thanks for the laugh.
Oh, I can imagine! Crying over here!
Thanks so much for sharing your joy❣️ In our home we refer to “poofs” as “fluffs”. It just seems to soften something that could be a little offensive.
Thank you for thinking of this joyful love note. And how sweet is Lief! I needed to hear this light, loving story this morning. Thank you for being you.
Blessings
Thank you for that ..I really needed a giggle!!
I love your creative art of expression whether serious or hilarious!
I love that… from more on that’s what I’m hoping to call it when my husband runs me out of the livingroom…Poofing🤣🤣
Now not more….I need to proof read lol