Life without my Wife

I am someone that always wants to be around my family. I want to be around my wife and I would rather have her around then have my alone time. So when I found out that we were going to have to be apart for about 3 weeks while the baby came that was really hard for me. On September 23rd I took my wife up to stay with my mom. She will be there until our baby boy is allowed to come home. As of today, it has been 13 days. I was able to go see her this past weekend but by the time I was able to get away, and the time that I had to go home it was only about 24 hours. This has been very hard for me to do. I miss her and I miss our one year old daughter who is staying with her.

From the beginning it has been somewhat challenging. I knew I was in for a fun time when the very first night I had put chicken in the sink to defrost. When I got home the plug in the sink had come undone so the water had drained and the chicken was still frozen. That is what I had planned so I didn't know what to do. So me and Lyla decided we would go get a $5.00 pizza from Papa Murphy's. Luckily it worked out OK that night but there is only so much pizza you can eat. My wife is an excellent cook and always makes sure we have something for dinner. Needless to say, I have not been as good as she is about it.

One of the first things my wife did was make a list of things that I had to do for Lyla when she got up. I was slightly offended that she didn't think that I could take care of our child. I am her dad I can handle it I said. She told me that she didn't want to come back in three weeks and our daughter had not brushed her teeth for the last three weeks. I laughed it off and said honey I will remember to brush her teeth, I haven't. There are some mornings and I will get to where I am going, either work or school and I will remember that I forgot. I also didn't give her the vitamin that she is supposed to get. I guess my wife did have something to worry about after all.