Mister Mom, June Edition, Part IV

11:21pm Melissa has safely landed in Grand Rapids… just a taxi ride away from home sweet home!

9:41pm I’m watching Melissa’s return flight on the web… the pilot is doing a nice job of staying just ahead of a storm front blowing through parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. Her plane is currently above Little Rock. The storm that they’re skirting by has a nasty looking eye in it. Bring her home safe, please!

9:29am We ate a banana and two cereal bars again for breakfast… he looked like he was so peaceful while he was sleeping in the morning that I couldn’t wake him up. (I know, I know, get over it.) It was interesting to see that he woke up this morning on his bed, given that last night I eventually just let him sleep on the floor. He must have clambered back up into it in the middle of the night.

Drop off was fine. It was that same thing as the other day… I know he shouldn’t be capable of this much thought, but I swear he’s TRYING to look busy and happy to make ME feel better about leaving him. It’s the way he won’t quite look at me… or maybe he’s extremely hurt but doesn’t want to show it. I can’t tell. Probably better not to analyze it and just keep going.

Those of you keeping up with the story, Melissa comes home tonight, at around midnight. I’m going to use the web to show Ian where Mommy’s plane is, and move the “mommy” sticker on his map to that location, so that he gets an idea of why we get on planes, etc. I’m hoping I’m awake when Melissa’s taxi arrives — I’m really running low on energy.