Thank you...
I really appreciate it and I sure am blessed to have such great friends!
I am happy to report that I am feeling A LOT better today!!
Last night I put my favourite CD on in the car and listened to my favourite song over and over on the way to pick up Neil. The hour drive and some time on my own, gave me a chance to compose myself before I picked him up so he wasn't tempted to take one look at me, turn around and head back to work again LOL...
That and the lovely hour we spent at the beach before coming home last night, star gazing and catching up with life, really helped me take a moment to catch my breath and recover from the 4 hours of crying and tantrums (mostly Hannah's - but some mine) yesterday afternoon.
I should have learnt from last time that Hannah is too young to do anticipation well!! But I knew she had overheard people talking to me about Neil coming home on Friday and therefore she kind of knew it was coming, so I made the mistake of telling her on Wednesday morning that there were only 2 sleeps to go...
In the words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Women... "Big mistake... big, big, HUGE mistake!!"
*** Mental note to self - remember to brief everyone around me NOT to talk about Neil's home coming around Hannah because she listens in to the conversation but is too young to deal with it.
Hopefully if I leave it for a surprise next time it will save me 3 days or a week worth of 2 year old meltdown... which then on top of trying to juggle everything else on top of the exhaustion of 4 weeks of parenting my myself with little help on top of the stress of setting up my business from home on top of financial restrictions meaning I can't even pay someone to give me a break on top of bad news from a close friend that ripped my heart into pieces = a total mummy meltdown!
I will be ok though!!
I wil be ok because I have...
1 week of Neil being home to give me a bit of a rest and time to put myself together...
a 3 week holiday in NZ coming up at the end of May to look forward to...
and the knowledge that there are only 2 more swings of him working away before he has a break from it to do some study and we can be back together as a family again - WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not to mention the awesome friends I have from mothers group, playgroup, church and you guys to help me survive in the meantime...
There is light at the end of the tunnel - I just need to refocus on it!
So thank you everyone for being there!!
2 comments:
Hopefully having Neil home is just what was needed...glad you have so many things coming up to loo forward to as well. Have a lovely week together
So glad to hear that you are feeling much brighter today! And you are so right about young kids not understanding anticipation - good idea to make your husband's return next time a surprise. Having things to look forward to like holidays is so great too isn't it.
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