Rasputin.
Have you seen that video of the couple dancing to Rasputin at the wedding? I stumbled across it last year and sent it to Sean (after watching it about 100 times during lunch) with the hashtag #goals. He sent back a rolling eye emoji.
As I pulled into the driveway that day, he called and asked if I was almost home. I told him that I was parking the car and please don't ask me to go to ShopRite because I'm exhausted. He said he was just wondering where I was.
I walked into the house and he was standing in the living room. Just standing. And then he turned the song on and started dancing. Like a damn fool in his bathrobe. And he had memorized the dance the wedding guy was doing. Apparently he had a productive afternoon and I was laughing so hard I almost peed in my pants. And as he's cha cha-ing through our kitchen, Lexi was doing her best to keep up.
That song became one of my favorites and made it's way to my airplane playlist - basically a collection of songs that I would listen to when we flew. And whenever it came on, he would look at me with his eyes wide and start dancing.
Tonight I had music on while I was showering. And Rasputin came on. And, without realizing it I was singing along like it was my job. Until I wasn't. And then I was sitting in the tub crying.
It wasn't because I missed Sean and his not so smooth dance moves. It was because I was singing and laughing and I felt guilty about it. I felt guilty that for a brief few seconds, I was acting like nothing had happened. It was probably the first time in two months that I felt slightly normal and that gutted me.
It took me a while to get up. Partly because I needed the cry, but also because I'm 48 and not exactly in the best shape of my life.
I read somewhere that those moments will creep in - that you'll laugh at something or do something like you did "before" and feel guilty. And tonight I had my first moment.
But I thought about it. Sean hated when I was upset. He hated seeing me cry. And some of our most fun moments involved us singing and dancing like idiots. So I tied my towel a little tighter and boogied into our bedroom.
And sang like a champ.
There's no telling how those moments are going to turn out, so tonight I celebrated that mad Russian monk and my husband's Travolta-esque moves.
❤️🙏🙏
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