This year has become a wild ride already.  2021 is just as messed up as 2020 and we are all less free now.  But there are some things to think about that are so much more important than our government’s lies and regulations.  Keeping a solid family together is important and keeping your wife happy is important.  We witnessed the United States and the world react to COVID-19 and saw our whole world change.  The economy started to look more e-commerce and in some cases, brick and mortar stores were closed entirely.  The reality of this led many people to be stuck at home for days, weeks, and months on end.  Many people were told to work from home and we all learned to live and work together at our homes.  This was a certainly complicated affair especially with families that had kids.  But what we really learned was how to share our time, our space, and our snacks.  The ability to share our lives with each other in all aspects was hard, rewarding, and taught us many lessons.  The one lesson that I truly learned was that if you are going to get a nice snack for yourself then it goes that you need to also get your spouse their favorite set of candy boxes too. 

We have snacked, worked out, and eat together more this year and last year than ever before.  This has given me many chances and I learned this over the many months of being with my wife.  We worked together every single day in the same home.  We ended up working in separate rooms and that is good because our companies are rivals. Yes, it still worked out just fine.  But through this working and living together many lessons came to light.  What we found was that if we were going to be having fun, that it was best to share.  That is because fun and joy are hard to come by when you are doing the same thing over and over day in and day out.  So by sharing the fun times we are able to keep each other happy. When one person is happy and the other not, well you will instantly lose and that is no good. 

Just stay on top of the snack world and know what your spouse wants.  The idea of staying happy was also something we found in food.  Many times we would make a great snack and eat it all up by ourselves.  This was not intentional at first, but after months we realized that sharing was just fun as eating it ourselves.  This went double for when we ended up breaking upon one of our favorite candy boxes and simply downing it all alone.  We both felt the effects of being left out of that small amount of joy.  So don’t get left out.

We learned to share more and share in the experiences of the little things that we both loved.  It was not hard to see what was important and that was being together through it all.  It was the small gifts of shopping and getting more of what your spouse likes and not yourself and it brought a great amount of joy to us both. So don’t forget about the small things in life.  The choosing of snacks can be life-changing and sharing them can help bring joy and a little comfort.