honey and brady

honey has been traveling more than usual lately to try to get stuff out of the way so that he'll be in town when i go into labor.  i'm happy to report that today i hit 37 weeks, and as of five minutes ago, honey made it home and won't be traveling anymore until june.

while it's hard on me to have my honey gone, it's also hard on the kids because they normally only get to see him for an hour or two on a normal workday... so not seeing him at all is just depressing.  this week, honey was gone to wyoming from 4am monday morning until 7pm tuesday night.  i kept the kids up so they'd get to see him for a bit before bed.  wednesday morning, he was gone again before 5am to go to salt lake and now it's thursday night and he just got back at 9:45.  it's not terribly hard on me in terms of single parenting because honestly, he's barely around to help out in the evening... just 30 minutes or so after dinner.  but i really really miss just having him around while we get ready for bed and i miss seeing him during the night when i wake up and roll over.  it's hard on honey when he gets home late from a trip because he knows he won't get to see the kids until the following night.  he frequently goes into abigail's room to see her because she sleeps like a rock, but it's not like they ever get to talk and she doesn't remember anything in the morning.  but he never gets to see brady.  which is super sad because brady's always asking where daddy is and running to the garage door every time our washing machine enters a new cycle phase that mimics the sound of the garage door.

well tonight was a huge success.  i took the kids to a graduation party for a bunch of kids at church, and even though it was just at our neighborhood clubhouse and we got there really near the beginning... we stayed late and didn't get home til after 8:30.  i put the kids to bed and while abigail fell asleep instantly... brady stayed awake singing in his crib.  when honey got home and found out brady was still awake, he ran up to see him (even though i told him he was being selfish because it would likely make brady cry... ha).  i couldn't hear anything because they were just speaking softly to one another, but i can't get over the preciousness of my honey sharing that time with brady and then rubbing his back and singing to him again before leaving the room (for the record... brady never cried).  for all the times today that brady said "where's daddy? daddy's in salt lake" it just warmed my heart that brady got to see my honey and that he knows he made it home safely.

my precious little boys.