2 weeks

You can call it vacation from Mike, (haha I did), or 2 weeks by myself to take care of everything! I was so exhausted. I am so glad he's home now because for 2 weeks, which felt like 2 years, I was working and taking care of Brandon and the dogs and keeping the house clean. Some days I would wake up at 7 and if Brandon wasn't up, I would take the first 1/2 of the hour and get myself ready for work. Then I would get Brandon out of bed, feed him, dress him and get him ready for school and somewhere in there, find time to let the dogs out, feed them and let them back in all before 8am! Then, I would work from 9am-8pm come home put my purse down, go across the street get Brandon all while he is screaming MOMMA MOMMA!! and whining for juice and saying "HOME", trying to talk to my father in law to see how Brandon was and to let him know when the next time he'll have to pick up him up from school for me. Then go home carrying Brandon mostly because he doesn't want to walk. Get home bring Brandon up stairs cause he doesn't feel like walking up the stairs, turn on the tv, go down stairs, let the dogs out again only to find that they peed and pooped in their room. Stand on the porch watch them to make sure they don't try to get out of the fence, let them back in and then clean up dog poop, get Brandon dressed for bed and try to do all this before 9pm and while on the phone with my husband. I am yelling at him cause the dogs have once again pooped and peed in their room and I have had it!! He tells me "you need to calm down!!" Well yes I do need to calm down but he is the LAST person I needed to tell me to calm down. He's concentrating on his school that he's at for 2 weeks. I am doing everything else!! -1 thing.......-1000 things!!!! A single mom has my up most respect!! I could do it, I've done it before, but it's hard as heck and I wouldn't want to do everything all the time.

He had the nerve to ask me "I want to know what's going on!" I can't remember what day and I said "what are you talking about?" he said "you are constantly yelling at me." Then I told him "I am sick of you leaving me all the time and I know it's only 2 weeks but as you sit in your class and do your work, I am doing everything else. Life doesn't stop it's still going on here!" I was pretty hurt that he asked me what was going on like I was cheating on him or something. He was wanting to be a recruiter and started getting his stuff together to be one and I talked him out of it because I don't want anything to happen to our marriage and recruiting is a very hard job and it's stressful on marriages. I don't know too many people that have done recruiting married and stayed married. I don't know how much it's changed but I asked him to not do it. He got mad at me. I just don't want anything happening to our marriage. He means too much to me. So when he asked me "What's going on?" I was really hurt.


He came home Thursday night, and I have let him have the brunt of taking care of a lot of stuff. He's been taking the dogs out and helping me with Brandon. It's been easier and I am glad he's home!