On Friday afternoon Scarlette and I got all gussied up for a really big event: driving to the airport to pick up Jeff.
Have I mentioned that my husband has been gone for three months?
Oh right. I totally haven’t.
Because most of y’all seem perfectly lovely but just in case some of you happen to be crazy cakes, I thought it might be prudent to keep that little bit of information to myself. Which, as it turns out, is hard to do when you are like me and have pretty much no filter.
Jeff started a new job this fall which has been such a blessing to our family. The only downside was that it meant extensive travel for the first three months. And by extensive, I mean that every couple of weekends Jeff would fly in late on a Friday night and fly back out early Sunday morning. 48 hours home. Maybe. He was home for five days the week of Thanksgiving and that was the most we had seen of him since early in September.
I’m going to tell you: I am exhausted. I have complete respect for you single parents. And for my friends who’s husbands deploy for lengthy periods of time (I’m looking at you Steph and Elise) I mean, I had it relatively easy and the past three months have been hard. Especially with it falling during our quarantine, when I can’t take Scarlette with me to run the simplest of necessary errands such as, you know, buying groceries.
I really missed having that guy around.
You know, because I love him and stuff.
Plus, I can’t hang a shelf level to save my life. That’s why you haven’t seen pictures of Scarlette’s room yet. I’m waiting for Jeff to fix the atrocity of shelving that I attempted to hang in there on my own.
I’m so thankful today. For my tiny girl who’s able to crawl over to the Christmas tree and marvel at its lights. For family and friends who have been such a help to me during this season. For Jeff being home with us again and completing our little family.
Everything is just a little bit merrier now.
On account of this I bend my knees to the Father, to whom every family in heaven and on earth owes its name. -Ephesians 3:14
