Alone…at last??

After 376 days (640 if you include pregnancy), I will be alone. Utterly and totally alone. David is kidnapping taking Indigo with him to Casper to visit her grandparents. He is going to a job site at the Trail Center in Casper on Wednesday week and it seemed like a great way for Grandma and Grandpa to see all the cool things Indigo is doing now. And who wouldn’t want to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa?

I am totally OK with it. That said, I’m also convincing myself not to handcuff her chubby little thigh to my wrist and barricading myself at home on Wednesday morning so he has to go alone!

I am kidding. I think it’s great that he is taking her. Why should a dad have to be alone when he has to be somewhere without mom? And I am so excited for Grandma and Grandpa Empey to see her again and for her to know them. It is funny though. I am very happy as a work-out-of-the-home mom and wouldn’t have it any other way (well, I guess if I had the income for staying home while having all the resources and creativity of her daycare teachers), but I have only spent one night away from her since conception (again, with the kidnapping generous babysitting offer by my friend Emily). I always thought I would want time away and I never quite understood parents who had 5-year-olds they had never left for the night. I never imagined WANTING her with me all the time. But she is just SO MUCH FUN! I marvel at her every day. She is becoming this little person and I get to be there during every moment. It is just so cool!

Maybe this will be a good exercise for me and will make me want to take more photos and upload more happenings to the blog so everyone else can enjoy her as much as I do. (I will now understand why daily pictures are so important.) It will also be an exercise in patience and parenting for David who has to take 4 flights in 5 days to get to Casper and back.

Good thing I signed up to sub at the gym on Saturday so he can't chicken out and leave her home!