Picture a bear arising from hibernation. He hasn't seen the sun in a while, his body is still a bit tired and he feels groggy. I think hibernation is a lot like being on night shift for two full months. You work hours upon hours underneath the stars when the city sleeps and the only people interaction you receive is that of your patients in the night and a few other individuals who are working the same shift you are. But for the most part-the city continues to sleep. And when the city awakes, you begin to sleep.

Hibernation mode just came to an end for the first time in two months, and I could not be more proud of my husband. And so this Saturday felt a lot like the first Saturday we have had together in a long long time because...the reality is-he has been hibernating for the past 12 weeks on Saturdays while I have been awake experiencing the sunlight on my own. 

But as we all know...hibernating with someone is much more fun with the hibernation is in the evening and you arise together to begin a new day at daybreak. Because no creature great or small was meant to hibernate alone. Although, as fate would have it, sometimes we are forced to even if only temporary. It just makes the "real" Saturday whimsies even that much more important.