I Kicked Single Motherhood's Butt - For the First Week

   As mentioned earlier, Nathan had to leave town for his new job last week.   I am not good at single motherhood.   I get impatient and crabby.   I told Jillian early in the week that I was depending on her to be good.   That I just couldn't deal with having two kids that in need of my attention ALL the time.   She came through for me.   From Monday until Thursday, I cooked 3 nights (albeit easy, uncomplicated meals), took Jillian to gymnastics (with Harrison), kept up with the laundry, mowed the yard, cleaned house, and watched two movies that I didn't think Nate would be interested in.   Jillian slept with me every night - and it wasn't as bad as I had feared.    We got to FaceTime with Nathan every night so we did "see" him throughout the week.   The kids enjoyed that a lot.
   And now the rest of the story...he has to go back this week to finish up his training.   We had really hoped that one week would be enough.   I had hope that if he did require a second week it could be done in our neck of the woods.   Nope.   So we will do this all again.   I have no hope of it going as well the second time around as it did the first.   I fear that would just be asking for too much.    But I also hope that I am really, really wrong about that ;).
    As far as the new job...This job is going to be more physical than his other job and that will take some getting used to.    And I think anytime you start something new, information overload causes you to not be able to think about how you "feel" about something.   He is happy to have a job, and I know he'll be happy to get back into his stores.
   On an unrelated note, the baby turned 17-months old this past week.   He is still so sweet and so bad.   He still wants his way in the worst way.   But, oh my goodness, he gives the best little hugs and loves that you almost forget that a few minutes before he had thrown himself on the ground and screamed because things didn't go just exactly the way he wanted.   We are working on that and trying different tactics to get him to stop.   We WILL find one - I just make no promises on when or what.