Posted by on Sep 30, 2013 in Personal | 0 comments

My wife and child are leaving for an annual trip to visit his grandparents up in Hong Kong this week. I’m not going this year. It’s a bit bummer….I’ll admit, I miss them both already and they haven’t even left yet. I’ve only had both my wife and child leave me on a trip once (well, twice if you count a trip when she was pregnant), and I had a similar feeling then.

Part of me loves the idea of revisiting bachelorhood. No questions, “Why aren’t you sleeping yet?” “Are you on still playing that game?”, or “You got crumbs on the table!” It’s just going to be me, the TV and some games I’ve been itching to finish for months now. I already took a week off for myself just to zone out and do nothing. Half my brain is already celebrating.

But the other side is certainly this sad pathetic side that wishes I were with my wife and kid. Some of my thoughts are not so nice…I’ve always had fears of flying mishaps since I was a kid and the thought of something happening to my family and I wasn’t there would kill me (not that I could do anything about it if I were with them either, but still….)

But also just the fact they’ve become so interwoven into my daily life it’s just a bizarre adjustment not to have that around.

I think the separation would be good. My wife needs some alone time to meet up with her old friends without me lugging around and the little guy will just have fun no matter where he’s at. I’ll just make do with eating everything I can’t normally eat, playing stuff I can’t normally play, and sleeping for long periods without a 4 year old jumping on me to wake me up.

Knowing full well I’ll have to clean all that shit up 2 weeks later before she comes back!  (photo Ranier Ebert)