As mentioned before, I travel quite a bit for my job. Texas is still young enough that he happily climbs in and out of my suitcase as I pack it for trips and ‘helps’ me gather items to pack inside of it. In his world during the week we really only spend about an hour and half together in the morning before school/work and about two hours at night before bedtime so my travels don’t have a huge impact. In my world however it means not watching him devour bean and cheese burritos (his current favorite food) for dinner or act like a fishy in the tub before pjs and ‘night night’…it means not cuddling from 4:45 am (when he typically stirs and comes to bed with me) to 5:30 am when we get up.

He is still too young to understand the overarching concept of my time away and phone calls home seem to cause more stress than peace so I don’t usually talk to him while I am gone. I get updates and loads of photos in hotel rooms….some trips are heartbreaking and some are so fast that I have to admit he adult time is refreshing but all in all, I am lucky and happy to have a job!

When he gets a little older technology will allow us to Skype every night I am away which will be wonderful but for now I will rely on quick snap shots from camera phones and bits of information passed on by loving DaDas and MiMis……