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!!!!

Shawn is still here.

Tom’s load was supposed to be split yesterday, but the other driver didn’t show up because his truck broke down. So now Tom is due in the City of Industry tomorrow morning to deliver and then picks up a new load in Southgate before he gets Shawn. It looks like we may be making a trip into Fontana to drop him off.

The worst part about it is that both girls stayed home from school today to see him off and now they have to be at school when he leaves because I’m a mean mommy and won’t let them miss two days of school in a row.

As much as I don’t want him to go it sucks that he’s here. It makes things a lot harder to deal with when you are all worked up for them to leave and then they don’t. It just draws out the sadness a little longer.

I think I might go to bed now. Get a little more cuddle time before tomorrow morning comes.