My husband was on the phone yesterday telling someone about my new job. He talked about how supportive the staff is, how neat the environment is… And then, in response to something the other person said, I heard him say, “Well, she’s gone a lot more now than she was with her other job”.
“She’s gone”
He wasn’t being offensive, he was just telling the truth. But the truth cut me deep. I’m gone a lot. I don’t see my babies very often.
I’m gone…
Something about that really bothers me. Maybe it’s because I never really feel “gone”. My husband and my children are always in my heart and in my thoughts. Nearly all of my decisions are based on how they’re going to affect my family. But the fact of the matter is, I’m away from them. A lot.
My grandmother, who passed away this year, used to have a saying. “Keep your chins up“. When she would say it, just the fact that she pluralized chin would put a smile on our faces.
So that’s what I’m trying to do with this week’s #52Project.
Keep my chins up.
Enjoy whatever quality time I can get with my family, even though it may be just an hour or two a week.
Stay focused on my blessings, and how badly I needed a job, and how this one landed in my lap just in the nick of time.
It’s interesting having children that are 11 years apart. The reality of how quickly the years fly by is evident when I look at the two of them. 12 years ago Logan was my baby. Now he’s older, doing his own thing, getting invited to coed Halloween parties (don’t even get me started).
For now my chins are up. But the days are long, The years are short, and this too shall pass.