This morning my husband left for the airport at 5:30 am. He'll be gone for the next two days in San Antonio for business (I just like saying that). It's his first trip with this new job. Last night, I made him dinner and dessert followed by a review of phone plans with him so we can pick a PDA from T-mobile for his job. I am so excited for him to have this job change. I know eventually it will become just work, but new is exciting. I am a huge fan of new.

But.....I am excited for me too. I will miss him, but it's only 2 days. I don't really spend time away from Will unless I leave, i.e. go to Stockton. He doesn't really go anywhere. Not out with friends (unless we go as a couple) and not on trips. He just goes to work and back. My girls and I don't really hang out just the three of us much. Most days are filled with me doing stuff I want to do or sleeping from working the night before, then when the afternoon rolls around I try to clean up the house and think about dinner. We eat when he gets home and then the evening is filled with kids needing showers, us talking about our day, him watching hockey, and then he goes to bed. At 9:30. I guess that's what a lot of people do during the week.

I remember four years ago when he used to work from 1-9pm. We spent most evenings with just us three. Back then I wished I could have dinner with him like normal families. But things were also less structured. The girls and I would play music loud and dance around the living room. We'd go get hot chocolate together or take evening walks. We'd watch some some movie and eat dinner on the living room floor. It would be finger food night, and dinner was apple sl ices, bagel bites, things you eat without utensils. We didn't worry about...well, not much.

I am already thinking of what us girls can do tonight.

Maybe I'm just not cut out for the housewife kind of stuff. I clean when I feel like it, I hate dishes, and I totally have an F in cooking. I pretty much think I don't live up to what people imagine a good wife does. But as a mom of two girls, I can be so much fun.