all the single ladies

I respect and admire moms that do it alone in a whole new way after this week. I am "lucky" in the fact that Joey never has to travel. The main reason I wanted to move to Madison was because Joey would work 5 minutes from home and be home by 5:10 every day! I just really depend on him. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's a definite thing. I have a TON of friends whose husbands spend a lot of time traveling, and I really don't know how they do it. I know that it's their "normal" and they have adjusted to it just fine. Me, however? I'm extremely thankful that this is the only week on my horizon that I have to be alone. My kids have been wonderful. But just the fact of having to do EVERYTHING for them by myself is draining. You don't realize how much you depend on the daily "help" until you don't have it. This week, the kids and I have been completely on our own Monday night, Wednesday and Thursday nights. Joey is staying in Atlanta. He came home on Tuesday night, but I'm not sure we said more than about 15 words to each other. He had to spend so much time studying, and I just continued taking care of the kids. It's been a hard week to be on my own because of all of the Halloween festivities going on for the kids. But, I'm making it! However, I am counting down the hours to Friday night when it will be all over!