Family Time Is Important!

For three weeks now I have been driving back and forth – 2 hours each way – for my work placement as part of my course. The experience has been incredible however this driving is really tiring me out. The trade-off is though, that I have been able to be home with my family in the evenings. This is worth all of the sleep that I am missing. It is so nice to be back home with my family – to sit together, tuck them into bed, and just be together under the same roof!
My daughter asked me to lie on the bed with her at bedtime last week and it hit me that maybe she is struggling at times with me being away. She has been very supportive and not really shown any signs of problems but maybe she just needed some time of being together – just the two of us. This past weekend we decided that this coming weekend we would have a girls night out. Well, actually it will be a girls lunch out, but you get the picture. She’d like to go out for lunch and do something together. I think this is a great idea and once I am all done my course in May, I plan to take her out for a real girls day and we’ll go to the spa or do something really special.
My son, on the other hand, wouldn’t be too thrilled with a day at the spa, so I’ll have to think about something that we could do together, too. Lunch would appeal to him, for sure, but I’ll try to come up with something for the two of us to do together, too.
As for my husband? He deserves some thanks, too, as he’s been running the house during this adventure, and I must say he’s not doing a bad job! I do like to remind him that he is basically doing what I’ve been doing for the past 13 years – just to keep him grounded!
There is no way I could be doing this course without the full support of my family and I look forward to being home all of the time and getting everything back to normal!