We miss you already, Lance!

Well, Lance is heading out today to Minnesota for 3 days, Toronto for 3, then Boston for 4.  This has been a crazy year for road trips, but we have weathered them well, I think.  This one comes on the heels of a long one a week before then another long one a week after.  I think that since Lance can't come to us, we may go to him in Boston.  Neither of us have ever been there and I think it will cut our time apart short as well.  LJ almost panics when he wakes up and I tell him dada is playing "baseball"...he knows it means he may not be back for a while, and he cries for him.  After a while, though, he wants to watch some baseball on t.v. and we act like we are watching Lance.  Like all of us, he's learning the lifestyle, and I think he handles it as well, or better than we do.  

Lance is really enjoying his team, so that helps a lot.  When he's on the road, I know he's enjoying himself.  He has enjoyable lunches and dinners with other players, and it's a load off our minds that he's not lonely.  LJ keeps me company, so we're both o.k. during these times.  It sure does make you look forward to July, though...and also the off-season!!!!  July is the all-star break and that means we've passed the half-way point of the season.  We're in the "home stretch" from there.

While Lance is gone, I get busy.  I'm very prepared for our day as I have no one to help me remember things, lift, or just get things together.  I'm more efficient with him not here than I am when he's here.  I have an extra sack of diapers, I rarely misplace keys, and I am prepared ahead of time for meals, planning and play times.  If anything, I wish I was as good while he's here.  

I think I let down and relax because I can, but that means he goes without the stocked fridge, planned meals and ease of transitions that my planning creates.  I told him I'd make him his favorite cookies to bring with him on his trip, but in the hustle and bustle, I didn't get it done.  Of course he doesn't care, but I know that while he's gone I 'll easily find the time to make them for him.  Why is that?  Maybe the baseball schedule is crazy when he's here?  Maybe that I slow down and live while he's home because he's an extra set of hands and I need them?  I don't know...I do look forward though, to being more rested and have more time so that I can be as good of a wife to him at home as I am a mom to LJ in his absence.  I'm not beating myself up -- being his wife is just a job I enjoy doing, and I look forward to the time an energy to doing it fully again.

That said, there will be more pictures soon.  I know my bursts of pics coincide with Lance's away trips.  He misses LJ so much that I know he wants as many pics as possible.  Because of that, you can enjoy more of them then as well.  See...I'm even less of a picture-taker when he's home :)  I guess I just let myself go!  

I hope your day was good.  As I was typing, I was having to stop to say , "I LOVE YOU" back to LJ.  He was saying it to me from his bed.  SO sweet.  I love those things and take them in fully whenever I can.  We miss you and love you lots!

Love,

Jamie