Home Alone

So Eldon has been gone for 7 days now. It feels like a month. He comes home Saturday night and it will be really nice to have him home. I usually do pretty well when he is gone because I am a very independent person. I like to schedule time for me. This usually involves scrapbooking, watching a movie and talking on the phone all at once until very late at night. For whatever reason I have been too tired to do those things this time around. Tonight is the night though. I am going to go to my mom's for awhile (a very nice haven when I am alone) and then I'll put the boys to bed and pull out the scrapbooking gear. I went to Cord today during lunch to buy some paper for some great lay outs.

The greatest thing that has happened since he left is that Donnie Copland has been my nanny this week. I could really go for this nanny thing. She is amazing. She has been doing our laundry, cleaning the house, taking the kids fun places, making them eat healthy things. I mean it's been unbelievable. Don't get me wrong, I have a great set up, it's just been nice to have someone come to my house in the morning instead of me having to go to theirs. THANK YOU DONNIE!

Eldon's largest conference always happens over our anniversary, so this year I took care of my own present. I bought a new camera. It is so much fun! It will also help in Alaska. I sent some chocolate covered Strawberries to his room for him. I think I got the better end of the deal.

I just have to say that I hand it to all you single mom's out there. It is so amazing how working and coming home by yourself can take the wind right out of you. When you think of having to add cleaning the house or doing laundry to your day, it just doesn't compute. It all of a sudden seems so unsurmountable that it almost causes you to shut down. So to have Donnie there doing that for me this week has made this years alone time so much better. It has been a true "tender mercy" from the Lord.

I have scheduled evenings with other stranded ladies for the rest of the week. As independent as I am I think the hardest part about the whole thing is that if you need the help on the little things, which you normally don't, you don't have it. I prefer the 3 day trips he takes much better.