Because It's Been Awhile

I don't know if anyone misses me when I don't write for some time so I figured I would jot a short note for the two or three people who may have felt pangs of sadness in my absence. Or not, but I felt I should say something...

We've been busy.

My son is "cruising" and into just about everything and when we tell him, "No!" to things he just smiles like he's in on our silly little game and he goes right ahead and does whatever we have tried to stop him from doing. Usually when our hands are full or our daughter has also just gotten into something. Her game is a bit more complex. She does what she knows we don't want her to do because she is an observer. She likes to push our proverbial parental buttons and see what transpires. So, yeah, busy.

My husband's schedule has been completely nutso, to say the least, lately. I cannot get over how one slight ring from his phone and every muscle in my entire body tightens. I automatically get ready to spring because every call could be dispatch and if it is, he grabs his bags and sprints out the door. Stressful? Slightly. Just a tad. I look at the calendar on the computer three dozen times a day planning every day should he be here, not be here, and should I have to move something around for whatever reason, is that at all possible? I always try to make it so. No complaints, though. I am not ranting in the least, just explaining my sabbatical from blog world for the past ten days. We have a good life and my husband loves what he does and we just do what we have to do. I think in the past few days my husband has driven back and forth from Connecticut half a dozen times. Mix ups and changes in plans and mechanics with the plane. This is precisely why those who work and the families of those who work in the travel industry rarely travel.

That and a bunch of other things and swirl the daily daily-ness of life on top of it all and there you have it. Was this a boring read? I apologize. I will be sharper and wittier and more banter friendly for the next one...