Truth is, my crew require two parents. In fact we could probably make use of a third parent but we are not that adventurous nor do we have the time to arrange such a thing ( I'm joking, although recently while watching Sister Wives I had the epiphany that four moms in a family isn't such a bad idea!)
Anyways, my bout of single parenting made me realize a few things. First of all, single parents are my new heroes. Don't know how they do it!
Second, Mark and I could never get a divorce ( not that we want to, and I hope we never want to, but if for some reason we did, we actually couldn't cause I NEED that guy for our family to function!)
Third, I am the wimpiest army wife ever. Pre-kids, I wouldn't have batted an eyelash at a month long separation, but as we all know, kids change everything. I found it hard, and the kids did too. Rylen for the last two weeks has focused his play on "daddy being on course"... Every two seconds he was bringing it up. Clearly he was missing his pal.
It didn't help that my kids aren't great sleepers ( well actually one of them downright sucks at sleeping) and were also sick for 75% of the time that Mark was gone. ( I made four trips to the walk in clinic in nine days!!)
Anyways, call me a wimp or whatever but I was counting down to today like crazy!!
Rylen was super excited for his Daddy's arrival. He had it all planned out ( and we even practiced) that he was going to yell "Daddy!!!!!" and run like mad and give him a huge hug. But when the time actually came, he got all shy and emotional and hid his face in my leg. It was super cute.
Garrett and Rhys seemed pretty excited to see their dad too. Huge smiles from both!!!
It was so heartwarming to see them light up at their dad's face.
Welcome home Mark! You are one very loved guy!!!
you're a superstar chelsea! i don't know how you did it!!
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