Alone

It's Saturday night, the house is so quiet that hitting at the keys on the keyboard sounds really loud. Sam is on his way to Madrid right now,I miss him already, I'm hoping that this week flies by real fast. It's already hard being away from home especially this time of year, so it's definitely much accentuated when the small family here has to be split. All over a sudden I'm hearing sounds around the house that I never heard before,I'm certainly praying for good nights and pleasant days.

Mich and I escorted Sam to the bus stop, we had already explained to him that daddy was going away for a while and he seemed to understand, but when the bus came I had to grab the young man because he was about to get on the bus too. He cried saying he wanted to go with daddy but I told him that wouldn't be possible, I would have loved to go too anyway. By the time we got back home he was over it, I on the other hand was just beginning to feel Sam's absence, I guess Mich could see it in my eyes, he said "mummy itsoke"!. He did a good job of cheering me up, although I noticed that he started to test his boundaries, something like "now that Dad is away do the rules get to be bent?". He wanted to play with the electrical stuff, see if he could stay up a little longer.... that got me a little upset but I think he got the point, nothing has changed.
We plan to spend tomorrow afternoon with our navigator friends, Brent and Dianne, then we will see what the New Year has to offer.