A post by Kevin. Yes, I’m busy with details of the week, dragging with the normal Monday mania, and preparing for our trip. My husband actually volunteered to do this post, so who am I to argue. Hope everyone’s Monday went well.

As regular readers of this blog know, 3T and I are heading to Hawaii and it can’t come fast enough.
In some ways, we could be heading anywhere, and as long as we’re away from people and responsibilities beyond identifying the next fun place to visit, we’d be happy as clams.
But Hawaii does have a special charm for a special occasion-our second honeymoon.
We had so much of a blast on our first honeymoon cruising around the Carribean that we didn’t want to wait for 10 years or even five to have that second one!
Yes, we won’t entirely be without people, but we are both looking forward to meeting DB, Christine and Ma Friday night and Saturday. I know we (3T more than me because she’s a frequent reader) will enjoy meeting some people we feel we “know,” and it will be a nice way to get oriented quickly to Oahu. After that, we plan to slip into our own cocoon and just plan fun in the sun for the two of us the rest of our time there, lapping every minute of paradise until that plane whisks us away to the Mainland later next week.
We’re big on entertaining ourselves together and entertaining each other, and the solitude will be welcome since we have had to deal with a number of social events, work, kids, and, of course, doctors!
In her wisdom, 3T counseled me often during this weekend about the need to kind of suspend thinking about faulty prostates and their removal. That was good advice (though she gives bad phone, she gives great advice!) and I intend to follow every word of it. I think we need this time to be with each other, like we were on the first honeymoon, not so much to reconnect (we always stay connected) as much as deepen our connection at a critical time in our life together. This impending surgery has us both rattled and the rest and fun will go a long way to helping me prepare for that surgeon’s knife.
I feel blessed so much by God that I am not only going to Hawaii, but going there with my incredible wife. If I can just keep the surfers from oggling her too much, I’ll be completely happy.
And, just in case you think I might be pessimistic about the outcome of surgery next month, let me assure you of one thing: On that long plane ride back, I will start us talking about our Third Honeymoon!
Aloha all!