Our daughter had her own room, and she sleeps there peacefully and undisturbed. We ate leftovers, and finished off the wine from a few nights ago - the two bottles re-corked and waiting like gypsy orphans on the china cabinet in our dining room. We watched a movie on our big-screen TV, one of those that hang on the wall, framed like a mural. Those used to be luxury items, the kind we'd see only at our rich friends' home. But it seems like everyone has one these days. Even us, tonight.
My wife baked bread. She could see the big TV from the kitchen so she wouldn't need to miss anything. I sat on the huge rwap around couch with cushy pillows. There was even a dog, who wasn't allowed on the nice red carpet. We stretched out and looked across at all the space, furniture and blessings.
In a few days we'll be back in our little DC apartment, watching movies on our laptop - enjoying the fruits of technology most of the world cannot even touch and about which our ancestors could not even dream. We'll eat like a king and queen of our little space and remember tonight, when we stretched out and played house.
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