Work From Home Couple

My wife hurt her knee earlier this week, seriously enough to require a long visit to the emergency room. Since then, she’s been immobile. Not there’s any good time for an injury, but Lynn’s timing was particularly bad: She’s just started her latest costuming job, providing 30-plus actors something to wear for a local production of A Christmas Carol, the Musical.

We did get some good news today, though. Our doctor cut away Lynn’s temporary cast. She was thrilled, of course, to be able to take a shower again. She can also negotiate stars, which means she can actually sleep in our bed again.

It was a good day on the work front, too. I picked up some editing work from a comic-book company and a big assignment from one of my favorite trade-magazine publishers. I’m hoping that next week, Lynn becomes more and more mobile again, I’ll even have the chance to write some of those stories piling up.

My wife and I are fortunate that we both work from home. I’m able to be here when she’s hurt. It works the opposite way, too, of course. But it is amazing how things get so much more difficult to accomplish when one partner in a relationship is down and out.

Times like this demonstrate just how important each member of a relationship is. It’s the little things your spouse does — making the baby’s bottle, throwing in another load of laundry — that really add up over time.

Well, it’s off to pick up our oldest son from a school Halloween party. And then, for me, it’s off to bed. It’s been one long week.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS