{ long days + helping hands }

Sometimes my days seem to draaaaag on…

and these days  they seem to be even longer

since I lie in bed awake for 15 or 20 minutes every three hours.

The daily schedule, though, doesn’t halt.

I’m drained at the end of the day.

Up until November my hubs had a job that allowed him to help out in the morning

AND he’d be home early enough to let me make dinner alone.

He changed jobs in November and he’s out of the house for 12 or 13 hours a day, 

including a 5 hour commute.

I know he’s nuts. We’re nuts.

But he enjoys his job and we have decided it’s worth the sacrifice.

I can complain a lot about it though.

It’s a long day to be alone with a toddler

while trying to do the cleaning, cooking, shopping, etc.

What makes it harder is that I know what it’s like on the other end

to have a husband that’s home more.

Not that Phil doesn’t help…. Seriously he’s SO helpful.

He does bath time and bedtime. He helps with laundry or whatever I ask him to do.

But I wish we had more leisurely family time.

I often ask him if we can move closer to his job

So that he can be home more.

It would mean we’d be 2 hours away from our families.

Sometimes I don’t care.

 And sometimes I have moments like I did today 

and I realize that I would be crazy to leave the support system we have here.

This week I was able to drop of Jacob at my sister in law’s so I could go food shopping alone.

We had free babysitting for an evening so Phil and I could go to a meeting together.

My mother in law took Jacob for an entire day so that I could work.

Then my mom offered to take Jake overnight this weekend so we could have a date night.

We are abundantly blessed by helpful and willing hands around us.

While Phil’s job might be a bit more demanding than we are used to

the trade off of staying put in a place where we are comfortable

is being able to count on so many people who love us and happily show it. 

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