We are having a blast with Jason and Heather and little Alora. They flew in on Wednesday night and will be here until Tuesday morning. We hung out at a local mall Thursday, went to Tombstone Friday (Stephanie and I had never been before either), enjoyed a lazy day on Saturday, went to church this morning and tonight decided on a movie night over heading to Flagstaff.
Its time. Tomorrow morning I get on a plane for NC. Tomorrow night, I’ll be at an East Gaston High School Football game with several of my high school alumni. I’m excited to go, and I look forward to seeing everyone, but the trip is bitter sweet. I haven’t been away from my wife for nine days since before we were married. The thought of not seeing her for nine days makes me question why I was willing to go on this trip without her.
I want to show off my wife and my son at the reunion. I want them by my side at Michelle’s wedding. I’m going to miss them a lot while I’m gone. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been way from Stephanie before – some travel with my last job, or men’s only events at my church. But never for nine whole days. I’m going to miss her a lot — I know we will be able to talk on the phone every night, but its not the same when you cannot cuddle up next to your wife to talk about your day, and listen about hers…
Pray for me :)
You have noticed that I stopped posting for about a week. You may have noticed that I didn’t update “Weekly Update…” this week either. I want to shed some light on the events over the last two weeks or so to explain my absence. Bear with me as I’m going to throw a lot of unconnected information at you and I am not going into detail on most of it (not to keep it personal, but because it would just be a boring read)…