What husbands don't want to hear...

Someone said that the three words a husband doesn't want to hear from his wife is, 'I've been thinking...'

My good wife has spent the day moving furniture from one room to another, requiring emptying every item of furniture that was to be moved - taking the CDs from a tall thing, moving all the glassware and cookbooks from an even taller thing resulting in every bit of shelf space covered by something - it was like at my workshop before a big clean; and taking all the paintings/prints from each wall. Move all of it from one room to the other | stand back and think about it | then move it all back to where it was. Perfectly valid process, I thought. I'm learning, after nearly 3 decades of being married, that sometimes you just have to go with the flow, no matter where it seems to be going.

It was funny though, and it reminded me of my dad telling me one of his Army basic training stories where they had to dig a hole, then move the hole to another location. A perfect analogy, I thought. And watching all the activity was exhausting!

But I'm learning: the answer to 'I've been thinking...' is, 'I can make that!' Which scares her almost as much.