I haven’t blogged much about SD’s new job, but he’s been going strong since April. He works from home now, having pretty much taken over our bedroom {at least it’s not my blogging desk!} and gets to take the girls to school in the morning and see them a lot more during the week than we were used to. He’s still traveling some, but generally only once or twice a quarter. The girls miss him so much while he’s gone, but we love hearing funny stories {like how he slept in on of the retirement homes or navigated Manhattan in a rental car} and getting random photo updates from him during the week.
Last week, he was working out of their Connecticut facility for a few days, but flew in and out of NYC. Ella was thrilled to hear he saw the Statue of “Liverty” and other skyscrapers in the city. His flight last Friday didn’t come in until after 9 o’clock and when I decided to take two sleepy little bitties to the airport to greet their daddy.
What is it about approaching the airport that is so exciting? I get a little lump in my throat every single time. We watched for planes to land and I pointed out the bright lights as we traveled the interstate. All week Sophie has been calling for her daddy and I’ve tried to explain he was “gone gone” or on an airplane and she didn’t pay me much attention. Now that we were en route and I kept saying we were going to see daddy, she squealed “airplane!” every time I mentioned his name.
A late night snack of apple juice and goldfish kept everyone happy while we read Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth aloud in the terminal. His plane was early and after only 10 minutes we were watching him walk down the long ramp. I wish I had taken pictures then because two little pajama clad girls took off running to greet him, security checkpoint or not.
After snuggling and opening presents in the baggage claim area we were headed home, a family of four. They both had perma-grins on their faces until Sophie realized that daddy would have to put her down in order to buckle her in her carseat. Yeah, I should have taken a picture of that, too!
