Daddy’s Home!

Sorry for the light blogging the past couple of days. Mr. LC has been going out of town a lot lately for work, and he came home Thursday evening. We also have house guests – some old friends from Pennsylvania and their really cute kids. All is well here, it just gets hard to concentrate with all of the commotion. I’m the last one standing tonight, everyone else has gone to bed so I have a few free minutes.

I can’t begin to tell you how nice it is to have my husband home. We have two boys, and try as I might to hang with them, they’re boys and I’m a girl and our interests differ. I asked them the other day if they wanted to go school clothes shopping and they both said “no thanks” without hesitation.

My boys love their dad, and are thrilled to have him home. The first week he went away was the week we were on vacation. When they woke up the first morning that he was gone they were so upset. They aren’t used to him not being with us. He’s their baseball coach, he’s the fun guy, and when it comes to discipline, there’s nothing like a man’s voice to get kids in line. For some reason dads are a lot scarier than moms. Not that I can’t instill the fear of God when they really act up, but it’s just so much easier when their dad is here.

I have another problem when he’s away. I love to read fiction novels about crime. I bring the books to bed with me and read until I’m about to fall asleep. As soon as I start to drift off I’ll hear some noise and my imagination starts running wild. When I’m here by myself with the kids it just means a lot of sleepless nights. Now that Mr. LC is home I feel safe and secure again.

To the women out there who believe it’s easy to raise kids, and raise them on your own, my advice is to think long and hard about your decision. To those women who have become single mothers due to circumstances beyond your control, all I can do is pray for you to remain strong. I hope you have a lot of family and friends to help you out. Parenting isn’t easy with two parents in the equation, doing it on your own is exponentially more difficult.

It looks like Mr. LC is home for good this time. For that I’m so grateful. “Daddy’s home” – I can’t think of any sweeter words to utter to my children. I believe they would agree.

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