So far, so good.
Shawn left a few hours ago, yes, they left very late.
Superchic reacted exactly as expected. “Bye, Daddy!!! I don’t want to give you a hug, I’m playing. I know you’re going to be gone a long time. Ok, fine I’ll give you a hug and kiss, now put me down, ok.” Then off she ran to play with her friends.
Rapunzel reacted exactly as expected too. She gave Shawn his hug and kiss climbed out of the truck, ran in the house, into the sewing room, closed the door, buried herself under fifty gazillion blankets and cried. Her biggest problem is that she “hasn’t been without Daddy for her whole life, except when -she- was a baby, and she doesn’t really remember that.”
Of course this meant that I followed her into the house and had to hold it together while she tried to calm down. Other than a few little leakers while we were talking I held it together pretty well. She knows that I’m going to miss him to, and that he’s going to miss us just as much. It made her smile when I told her that he started tearing up while looking at the photos I sent with him.
SuperChic and I sat on the couch to watch Air Buddies and share a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Half Baked. I fell asleep. On top of everything else it’s that time again and it’s really knocking me for a loop this time round.
Yeck!!!!

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