Lonely Holidays

Today starts the beginning of a very long and lonely 21 days. About two days ago, Josh called and told me that he will be working out of town for 21 days. Now, at first I didn't think anything of this. I mean, even with his first employer here, he worked out of town for a week at a time. The difference between that job and this job, is that he will no longer be spending his weekends at home. He is actually working for 21 straight days, 12 hours each day. I thought only robots were expected to work those kind of hours. But at least they turn machines off to cool for awhile, right? So three straight weeks of working 7 twelve hour days. I guess it's a job that needs to be done by the beginning of next year, but still. It's Christmas people! Who works like this during the holidays. So when he told me I was flabbergasted. I didn't know how to respond. 21 days straight of no breaks where I hand the kids to daddy and get some personal time. 21 days of no Josh. So other than play-dates with Mandy, my only adult interaction will be the TV and I don't even have cable. The good news is that the paychecks should be fairly nice and the company is putting him up in a nice hotel with all expenses (including food) paid for on the company credit card. The bad news is that I'm spending the holiday season by myself. Ugh. When I asked him if that meant that he will be working on Christmas Day, he said he had to ask. So when he asked, One of them said, "Look Josh, Christmas is just another day of the year." And lucky for me, Josh had told the other guys that are doing this job that his wife wasn't too happy about not seeing him for Christmas. So the other guys piped up and said, "Um, yeah man. It's not just another day to Josh's wife." So they said okey dokey and told him they would all go home for Christmas day. So at least we will see him for the day. I would be really upset if the kids couldn't spend Christmas with their dad. Now, on the other hand, this means we won't get to spend our 8th anniversary together or New Years day/eve. But I suppose I can't have it all this year. So for the next three weeks, I'll be having very long days. I'll look forward to seeing him when/if he comes home to visit anytime. But I can't expect him to do that because I know that twelve hours of work is pretty heavy duty stuff. I can't even fathom what it must be like for people who's spouse is in the military so my hat goes off to them. Oh, and I am also using a very old computer to connect to the internet. It's a fickle machine with quite a few issues, so blogging may be a bit off this month. Hope you all understand. Until then...wish me luck. It's gonna be a long lonely holiday season.