chicky says time to get up

i swore i'd never say that to my kids because all three of us porter

girls hated it with a fiery passion when jan jan chirped it to wake us

up, and i can proudly say that i have refrained thus far.  but there isn't

really a need to chirp anything when my only child is such a trooper

about me dragging his cuteness out of bed at an ungodly hour of the

morning to take the man of our house to the airport.

 

 

 

richard has gone to boston (actually southbridge, just south of boston)

four times now.  two times very recently, each for a week, and only separated

by one week at home.  does that make sense?  he left for a week, came home

for a week, and left for another week.  anyway, it was as chaotic as i'm making

it sound.  but marty boy was a great sport about waking in the middle of the night

to let me put him in his least favorite place in the world: the carseat.  i tried to be

in as good a mood as humanly possible so that richard's last memory of me wasn't

a haggard, ornery-pants wife that he didn't really want to come home to.  i think it

helped, at least a little.

 

 

both days that he left i took work off so that we could recover.

a lot of this happened on those days.  he may be richard's little twin,

but the fact that his hand is on his face in tired distress does in fact

prove that he is also my child.

 

 

here we are the second time around.  still as happy as ever to

be driving to the airport at 3:30 in the morning.  woof.

 

 

my dad is awesome and let me borrow his ipad so that we could facetime

with richard every night.  the last time was the best because richard was

able to get a real response out of the boy...he had him smiling and talking,

and it was the next best thing to all actually being in the same room together.

 

 

we're both so glad when daddy comes home.

 

 

and he's glad, too...glad enough to let the boy do just about whatever

he wants.  drool...what drool?

 

 

 

 seeing this just makes my heart feel like it could burst.

next time richard goes to boston/southbridge, we're going with.

we're making a family vacation out of his program graduation, and

hopefully the grandpas will be joining us for that east coast road trip.