My book has arrived but I am in Chicago

So here I am in Chicago and my book is at home!! I am away for work for a couple of days and suddenly I feel separate from my cookbook.  I don’t actually mind traveling for work.  When I first started out in my career I traveled a lot for work, often three weeks of four in a month.   But I was building my career and didn’t mind the travel; it felt glamourous and important.  But I have to admit it was often hard to build a relationship with someone and eventually I changed jobs because it simply became more important me to build a relationship and give myself the opportunity to meet someone.  I certainly couldn’t while I was traveling so much and frankly I found my priorities changed.  I still travel some for this job but not nearly as much and I love both the break and the feeling of flying home to my guy.  It is so wonderful to have someone to call home to, someone to call from the hotel room before bed, someone to keep our life moving even when I am not there.  I lived in an apartment when I was traveling so much earlier in my career and for many months, there would be no food in the fridge or things in my apartment wouldn’t be moved in weeks.  It was like a nicely decorated storage room!  Anyway here I am in Chicago for work and it will be fine.  But of course now that I am here, my guy has texted me that the cookbook has finally arrived and we got all the nonsense sorted out and it is in his hot little hands!  And all I want to do is rip it open and take a look, feel it between my hands.  Last night though I always spent some time thinking about all the craziness right now.  I have to let go, and relax.  There is only so much I can control and with the imminent release of the cookbook, all the renovations we are doing in the house and the sale and move of our condo I have to slow down and savour this time.  It is crazy and stressful and exhausting but it is also exciting and rewarding and beautiful.  We are building the next phase of our life and I want to experience it and all the wonder that accompanies this change.  I don’t want to be stressed and short and worrying and trying to push the ocean.  I need to take a breath and everything will fall out as it should and it will be wonderful, even more so, once I get out of the way!  Besides, now I have a surprise waiting for me on my kitchen table when I get home!!!