When I was a teenager, I had a creative writing class where I wrote some pretty bad poetry. One of the poems I wrote was about "waiting". I think it was a complaint about how I had to wait in the car for my mom or sister one day. Back in those days, I had NO IDEA what waiting was all about.
It seems like almost every night I get a call around 5 or 5:30pm with the news "I am going to be a little late tonight". No matter how often I hear it, it never gets easier. Sometimes I feel like I spend my whole life waiting for Mike to get home from work. It doesn't help that I have two girls asking "when is Daddy coming home?"--not to mention that they start this at around 9am! It is especially hard when a bussiness trip is coming up. Somehow, I feel like he should take a whole week off to make up for the time he's gone, instead he has to work extra long hours before and after a trip to make up for the time he's gone.
I am so jealous when I hear families actually going on vacation together--for longer than a weekend. My hubby didn't even take New Years off--and only one day for Christmas too. I think the whole thing would be a lot easier if I didn't have a needy-whiney two-year-old who is always crying and following me around so I can't do ANYTHING.
Okay, that's all the venting I need to do for now. Just to let you know, Mike is going to be late tonight and he is going out of town all next week--and he just called to ask if he could take "my" car on the trip...grrr.
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Well...atleast he calls you to tell you he'll be late! I'm basically in the same boat as you! Damon works 70 hour weeks. The kids see him for about 30 minutes in the morning, and are asleep before he gets home at night. It's hard! You should come to Utah for the week he's gone:0)
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I feel your pain. Ashton's leaving for a month...and leaving me with these two monsters!! :) Good luck with Mike's next business trip! Call me, I will need some adult conversation too.
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