Four years ago today, we left our home in North Carolina to move here to Hooterville, Georgia, which never has been nor apparently will ever be home. What I wrote about this anniversary two years ago is almost exactly what I would write again today. For reasons too numerous and tedious to mention, we just don't fit here and here doesn't fit us.
We are celebrating this anniversary in the best possible way by making steps to leave. James arrived safely in New York and is getting settled in his bachelor pad, and hopefully Aidan and I will be able to join him soon. My fondest hope is that on 28 August of 2010, I will not be marking the passage of another year in Georgia.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
On his merry way
James started his epic journey to New York yesterday - well, epic only to him. You would think that he was crossing the Rockies in a covered wagon and trying to beat the November snows, to hear him talk! Actually, his Outback did somewhat resemble a covered wagon in that it was practically loaded to the ceiling.
He left a few minutes after Aidan boarded the bus for school. We tried to downplay James' departure as much as possible...really really tried to minimize the drama. And Aidan did great until just as he got ready to climb on the bus and he got a little weepy. I fully expected a bad report from school but he did fine and we had a good afternoon/evening until bath and bedtime. He was tired, he missed Daddy and he just got a little obstinate. All in all, however, the day went far better than I anticipated.
James drove as far as his parents' home in the Charlotte NC area yesterday and stayed overnight with them. Today he will drive as far as he reasonably can, then complete the drive into Syracuse tomorrow. He starts the new job next Tuesday, so he will have a few days to move all his stuff into his apartment, set up utilities, buy a bed and computer desk, and procure the other little things that he either forgot or could not fit into the car.
As for me, I am fine. I am enjoying a little bit of space right now, but I am sure that it will hit me in just a few days that I miss James terribly and that I really loathe being a pseudo-single parent.
He left a few minutes after Aidan boarded the bus for school. We tried to downplay James' departure as much as possible...really really tried to minimize the drama. And Aidan did great until just as he got ready to climb on the bus and he got a little weepy. I fully expected a bad report from school but he did fine and we had a good afternoon/evening until bath and bedtime. He was tired, he missed Daddy and he just got a little obstinate. All in all, however, the day went far better than I anticipated.
James drove as far as his parents' home in the Charlotte NC area yesterday and stayed overnight with them. Today he will drive as far as he reasonably can, then complete the drive into Syracuse tomorrow. He starts the new job next Tuesday, so he will have a few days to move all his stuff into his apartment, set up utilities, buy a bed and computer desk, and procure the other little things that he either forgot or could not fit into the car.
As for me, I am fine. I am enjoying a little bit of space right now, but I am sure that it will hit me in just a few days that I miss James terribly and that I really loathe being a pseudo-single parent.
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