Sunday, July 20, 2014

Tuesday is coming and then the adventure really begins. . .

On Tuesday, I pick-up T from camp. I'm so excited to see him. We haven't talked in three weeks. I sure hope he had fun. I do know his little brother really enjoyed having alone time with us.

The time apart has made me realize just how much of my time and energy goes to T and how little goes to K. With the older one's homework demands it had become such a focus at the expense of the little guy. Now, with my husband back from Iraq, I so hope that having two parents will make it easier to devote more equal time to both. We definitely need to give more alone time to our little guy.

T did get into a STEMM school, which will be demanding. Helping T with homework quickly devolves into struggles and frustrations between us. Clearly, my children will NEVER be home schooled! And, it really isn't fair to K to have so much of my attention focused on T at the expense of having any time for anything or anyone else.

We are learning along the way, always. . .

So, Tuesday will be the start of our next adventure with these lessons learned ready to be applied. Looking forward to (and dreading at the same time) our nine night drive across country in one car with two boys, a dog, my husband and myself. Hopefully, it will be about some quality family time together and seeing some new things from our own country along the way.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pack light.

The Story Chronicles said...

So glad you're getting T back from camp today. It sounds like his time away was beneficial for everyone. Your road trip will most certainly have some bumps along the way, but I bet it'll go down as one of the best family vacations ever and y'all will talk about it for years to come. Xxx