We've reached the stage of development I've been dreading ever since Beaker started working away from home. Punkin finally clued in that 'Daddy went to work' means she won't be seeing him for a lot of sleeps.
All yesterday, every time Punkin lost sight of Daddy, there were tears and sorrow. This morning there was hysteria. She snuggled up in my lap and sporadically wept for the best part of an hour. It's a miracle when she sits still that long.
She went on a fruitless search for him and when I explained it would be 21 more sleeps till she saw him, all hell broke loose again (she can count to 14 successfully. Anything more than that, and it may as well be 1000).
Now she's finally down for a nap. I'm trying to catch up on laundry and clean the guest room and I kinda want a warm mommy lap to snuggle up in. I miss him too. And it's been less than 12 hours.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
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4 comments:
aaawwww....
hugs for both of you!!
Oh honey, that's got to be so hard on all of you. =(
That's so hard. Nature Boy sometimes works out of town and the first time Goober realized what was happening was absolutely terrible. (That and we had a mouse in the house that completely freaked me out.)
We're thinking of you down here. *hugs*
It's funny how we as adults sort of brace ourselves for time away from our partners. Yet add the innocence of a child to that scenario and it brings out something else entirely. Loss - sorrow - abandonment. And all within ourselves.
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