Tonight I was explaining to our kids that I am leaving in the morning for a short business trip to Orlando. Here are a few of the kid’s reactions:
Luca: “Can’t someone else go?”
Lincoln: “Will you bring me back a gun that doesn’t shoot water?”
Anna: “Can I go with you?”
Luca: “Can you just go for 2 days? Or just one?
It’s always fun to see the kid’s reactions when I tell them I have to go somewhere. Luca assumes I’m going to months. Lincoln doesn’t care that I’m going but wants to make sure I bring something back for him and Anna wants to come with me.
I don’t like saying goodbye to Kim or the kids, even for just a short five days. I don’t know how our service men and women leave their families. Especially when there’s a chance they will not return. It makes me realize that I have it easy.
I tucked the kids into bed tonight and came down to the computer. Less than five minute later Luca came down and crawled on my lap. She put her head on my shoulder while I rocked her asleep. I would not trade these moments for anything in the world.
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