Figuring it out

I’m working on a semi-spontaneous trip next week. I don’t want to spend much money, but I want the trip to be worth the destination. So, finding a balance of clean and safe hotels that are close enough to trains to make getting around easy, and cost per number of days. Originally, I was thinking we’d go Tuesday-Friday, and be heading home Friday morning-ish. But then I realized that my husband might be free that Saturday, and so, maybe, just maybe, we could do it partly during the weekend, too. Celebrate Father’s Day together in a fun adventure place. Plus, it would be a closer place for him to meet us than his coming all the way home.

But, again, cost. So, working on it all. Also working on figuring out how to have him check in with me when he heads home at the end of the night. I was pretty much just waiting for his end time tonight before turning out the lights. But he never called, and he is already back at his hotel. So, yeah… figuring out that scheduling situation.

God, continue to guide us clearly, please. Keep us safe, and make us well and whole. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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So tired

I need sleep. Period. Life is really hard to handle right now, and it’s made all the more difficult by my body’s not being ever rested. I need to sleep through the night. Consistently. But even once would be a blessing.

God, keep us safe and make us well, please. Encourage my husband in his work. Help him to be his best self in all that he does, and help him to believe that he is where you made him to be. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Oh, the possibilities

I delved a bit today into the practical side of the potential of traveling somewhere while my husband is gone for training and work. While some initial prospects had been disappointing, my research today was quite exciting. There will be many adventures for my family, I do believe. And we don’t even have to wait to begin, if we don’t want to do so. However, I’d like to keep our previous engagements for the moment, so things will have to wait for next week, at least.

Thank you, God, for my husband. Please, keep him and our daughter and me safe and well and happy. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Wow

It almost seems harder now to be at home without my husband, as compared to before he came for his short visit. Perhaps it will wear off as more time passes, and I won’t be so utterly lonely and so miserable without him here at the end of each (or any) day.

God, guide us, please. Heal us, keep us safe, and make us well now and always. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Sweet Emotions

My husband came home for about thirty hours yesterday afternoon. It was a really good time being together as a family for a short while. When I dropped him off at the airport this afternoon, though, I totally broke down crying as I drove away. It was very unexpected, though I wasn’t too surprised. I’m tired to start, so my emotions are quickly to respond in general. Then I’m in a very difficult situation of being almost entirely on my own with our baby for eight+ months, to now, another three months of being fully on my own with her. It sucks. I want to be with my husband. And that isn’t an option right now. And that really sucks.

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Home

It’s only for about 30 hours, but my husband is home. And I am relieved to have him here. Yes, it is annoying to have him ask a bunch of questions because he doesn’t know how to do something normal for our daily life (because he doesn’t get to be a part of our daily life right now), or when he’s frustrated the house isn’t in better condition, or whatever. It’s always going to be hard to have someone living separately come join in one’s routine and daily flow of life. And it’s also hard in its own way when that is someone who is supposed to be part of that daily life and routine already, but can’t be right now. But that’s just our current situation. It will improve as he progresses with his training and as his work schedule develops with each stage of things. For now, we live apart. And we get the immense blessing of having him physically here with us in our home, all of us together tonight and tomorrow.

Thank you, God. Please, keep us safe, make us well and whole, and heal our ailments expediently. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Goodnight, Moon

My daughter has, somehow, discovered the book Goodnight Moon from her collection of a bagillion board books, and determined that she wants to read it each night in bed.

This was fully her own doing, by the way.

How wild(?!)…haha

Thank you, God. Please, keep us all safe and heal my husband. In your name, I pray.

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Hard times

It is interesting how difficult it can be to discuss calmly things that bother us, especially when it comes to family and family-in-law. Even if we agree on something, it can be hard to hear when it comes from another. And it can be painful to speak up or to speak honestly when we know it will land with difficulty. Even if we agree on the whole.

And having stress in place and a lack of sleep before we even get started with these conversations makes for even harder conversations.

God, guide us gently, please. Help us to be the people you made us to be. Keep us safe and whole and well. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Better days

Today seemed like it might be another very hard day. But I stood my ground when someone tried to do things a way that wouldn’t work for me (twice), and it made a huge difference. It was still hard at times, but my daughter and I ended up having what seemed to be a pretty great day. I even wore her out so much that she didn’t even know that we stopped for gas and went grocery shopping on the way home this evening – she was out.

Things are still hard. Really hard, in fact. But they felt more doable today. And that was nice. It hasn’t felt that way in a while, really.

Thank you, God. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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