August 19, 2019

Mondays are always hard for me, particularly after one of your off-weekends. It’s so nice having you home, and having all three of us together as a family, that it makes me sadder than usual to see you leave for work. Judah has gotten to be such a trooper about it. Inevitably, while watching you drive away from his spot at the window, he says that he misses you or wishes you could play with him, but then in the next instant cheerfully proclaims, “But she’ll be back!” I think it may weigh heavier on me than him most days, and I suppose that’s probably a good thing.