The title of this blog is, of course, facetious. It was more like "Party In a Rocking Chair"!
I have taken up crochet. I started my first project yesterday, New Year's Eve Day, and finished before going to a friend's house that evening. Then, at said friend's house, we proceeded to pig out in our pajamas and watch a movie and a Friends episode before shouting, "Happy new year!" and going home to bed. The excitement boggles the mind...
AC hung out with Nana and Papa (M and FIL). They went to bed pretty quickly, but AC did okay going to sleep. We have had some bedtime problems since Clayton left. She won't go to bed on her own anymore and wakes up screaming anytime between 2 and 5 a.m. The screaming is abated only when I pick her up and bring her to my bed. She then falls asleep touching my face. I think that with Daddy leaving and not coming back and all the family that was here for Christmas leaving, she is, to say the least, freaked out. The 30th was the first night she stayed with Nana and Papa since Nana had her hysterectomy. She screamed all night for Mama. I told Michelle to call me if she got too upset, but they struggled through it which was probably why she had a good night last night.
What's hard is that I don't know how to make her understand that Daddy is gone, but WILL come back. She brings me my phone at least once a day to call Daddy. I tell her that Daddy is working far away and we can't call him, but he loves her very much and misses her. I don't know that she understands what I am saying, but I don't know what else to tell her. How do you explain to a 16 month old that her Daddy is gone for a year, but that he will come home and he is ok?
I try to get her to talk to him when he calls, but she isn't into talking on the phone lately. We do watch the videos we took before he left of him reading books to her. After we get some money saved up, I think we will look at getting him a laptop so we can Skype. That will be great. I haven't seen even a picture of him since he left. I want to see him!!
We are going to run some errands later today and maybe I will go home to do some laundry...maybe not...
Until then,
AC's Mom
