Rus Wednesday

I've been thinking about Rus all day today - the pressure of "Rus Wednesday" is getting to me, I guess. :) Really I've been thinking that I've let the guy down.
Take for example my pantry: It is loaded with food, but not the kind Rus would love - Kashi Cinnamon cereal, Oatmeal Squares, Ritz crackers, granola, granola bars, peanut butter, goldfish, chips, and lots of canned food and noodles. Notice the absence of things like Little Debbie snacks and sugar cereals and most notably, chocolate? Now we do have a cabinet appropriately named "the sweet cabinet," that should have cookies or m&ms or something, but it, too is barren except for a jar of old "healthy" cookies that don't have any sugar in them and use dark chocolate and bananas. Not really the sort of thing Rus willingly eats. My sugar-free sprint is leaving Rus in a flax-like dust and he's choking on it.
In other areas - I sometimes (usually. always.) don't make a lot of effort to conceal the stress of my day when Rus gets home from work. Rus knows with a glance and barely a foot in the door if the kids have been hard or if I've been grumpy. And if that doesn't clue him in then me snapping at the kids for something usually does. I will be the first to admit that I am not a very sympathetic person. (Empathetic? Yeah, that too.) Sometimes it takes me a good twenty minutes to remember I didn't ask Rus how his day was. We seem to spend most of the night coexisting until the kids are in bed, the fog clears, and we can both decompress and say, "Hi! Nice to see you! How are you doing?"
Tonight will be slightly different. I'll say hi for about thirty minutes and then head off to the church and I won't see Rus until after the kids are in bed. He'll be left with laundry on the couch, kids who need showers, and all the whining that goes with it.
So today, for Rus Wednesday, instead of just writing nice things about you, Rus, I thought I'd do something nice. Go check out the fridge, there's chocolate chip cookie dough waiting for you. (He likes the dough more than the cookies.)
I love you!