We will be joining him after the school year is over. He is staying in hotels right now and doesn't have anywhere permanent yet but he doesn't really live here anymore. He is never home. I feel bad for him. I know he misses us and he says this still feels like home. He doesn't think Georgia will feel like home until we are all back together again. I would like to find us a house and move some of our things in. Bring everyone down for a week and get him all set up. I think it would help him feel more at home there.
It's hard for me too, harder than I thought it would be, but i'm trying to suck it up. I want to be supportive of him and comfort the kids. I didn't think us being separated would be this hard. I've kind of turned into a big baby about it lol. It does help that when I went down to visit Georgia the weekend before last one of the women in the office tolf me the same thing happened to her. She came home and told her DH she put in for a transfer, he found a job in the area and ended up moving 4 months before she did. She said it was bad, she cried all the time. Thankfully, I don't cry lol. I just feel tired and stressed. I am basically a single mom of 6 right now, and will be until June. As well as trying to make sure I take care of DH even though I am in Michigan and he is in Georgia.
-- Edited by Mom of half a dozen on Monday 8th of October 2012 10:38:05 PM
So, what's happening out there in our great big world tonight? I'm still procrastinating, although I did get two whole recipes typed.
I went to see my grandparents today, since AB's therapy was rescheduled for tomorrow. They're the only great-grandparents AB has, so I try to get down there once a month, but it's almost a 90-minute drive one way. I have to pack up two diaper bags - one with the standard supplies and one for the toys. I left the house at 8:45 this morning and didn't pull into my garage until almost 11 hours later. They love when we visit, since AB's the only great-grandchild they get to see (the other one lives twice as far away as we do), but it makes for a long day!
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"I never understood why blessings wore disguises. If I were a blessing, I'd run around naked." - Sophia Petrillo
It's so wonderful that AB has great-grandparents and that they are well enough to enjoy the visits. Bless you for making it happen!
I have little to report, except that my favorite season is as beautiful as ever in Chicago. I was really missing my college kids yesterday, but Small and my oldest girl came along for a long walk in the forest preserve yesterday afternoon, very soothng to the savage maternal breast.
My oldest started 4th grade this year. As much as I look forward to getting them into college, and believe me I do, I think it will be kind of hard too.
As for me, I dropped DH off at the airport again today. He got to come home for a visit this weekend. They are flying him back again on Friday. I have no idea why they are making this trip so short. They last few times he has been gone for 2 weeks, then home for a weekend and back again. I am glad this is a short week though, even if I don't know why. I need to call some realtors in the morning so he can go look at some places this week. There is one house we really like but he can't get anyone to call him back so I am going to give it a try. I would like to pick out a house this week so he can feel more settled. I think he is getting depressed.
Thanks. I don't mean to sound down about the whole thing. This a great opportunity for our family. DH was promoted and moved to a new area. It's exciting! It just gets hard being separated sometimes. I think it's the worst on the days I drop him off. Things will all work out for the best though. This is only a temporary inconvenience!
Not a lot interesting going on with me. I have the craft show this weekend. Made up a lot of wine bottles, wine glasses, and pilsners in addition to my stone work. Hoping to stir up some interest and make some sales as well. (*I typed "stire" at first*)
I am super proud of myself. For the first time I unloaded a semi truck of stone by myself. I can kick ass with a bucket on my machine but have limited experience using the forks. Unloaded the full truck (16 pallets) in under 30 minutes.
My friend is all sad because she missed two parties this week because she didn't know when they were.
One of the parties was mine which was a couple days ago and I don't believe she didn't know when it was because a bunch of her friends were there and it was kind of a big party that people have been talking about for at least a couple of months so whatever.
The other one was a Halloween party which I don't believe that anybody could -not- know when a Halloween party is so again, whatever.
She'd been drinking and even though I hate talking on the phone I listened to her moaning about how people 'disrespect' her.
Appearantly I disrespected her because I didn't send her an invitation to my party.
Yeah ok. I invited her on the Fourth of July and I sent her an e-vite on fb. I also happen to know that she got an e-vite to the party tonight. She's just acting like she's too good to respond to e-vites as if they're beneath her or something.
If she would have gotten off her high horse and responded to my e-vite I would have sent her an invitation. And if she had responded to the e-vite to the party tonight she wouldn't be at home drinking by herself and drunk dialing and annoying people.
I can't believe she expects people to cater to her snobbery so that she'll come to their parties. Ok now I'm laughing.
pshhh I disrespected her.
Do people really feel disrespected when they get e-vites?
Like really? I'm supposed to sit down and write out 100 invitations to a party when I know only about 65-70 people are going to say yes? It makes so much more sense to send out an e-vite to all 100 and then send invitations to the people that say yes.
She's acting like -- well I would have said yes if you had asked me in the way I wanted to be asked.
bwahahahahahahaa!
ummmm, ok. Let's see how many more parties you miss with that thinking. Yeah the Holidays are upon us. Good Luck clueless.
She can either choose to accept this is how it's done in your circle or she can sit at home alone and upset. I get she doesn't view it as a "real" invitation but people aren't going to change for her. If she wants to be included she needs to suck it up. I would also like to point out that this isn't a small dinner party, it's a large casual party. If someone invited her to an intimate dinner party she would probably get a call or something in the mail. I don't think this is get drunk and call people to complain worthy.
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