Bon Voyage
October 7th, 2008
So Mommy is going away for the first time without the Tornado. She has the opportunity to go Orlando for free. Disney World is bringing her down to be on a mommy blogger panel. They pay for her airfare, two nights at their resort, and give her free tickets to their parks. She gets to review the resort and parks and offer suggestions to make the park more family friendly. It really is so great for her; the only catch is that she has to go all by herself. Two problems, leaving the Tornado home and flying.
Mommy has never been away for the Tornado for this long. The longest she has been gone is overnight and that only resulted in about 12 hours away, most of which was spent sleeping. This time Mommy leaves Friday morning and doesn’t come back until late Sunday evening. Three days and two nights away from home. This is going to be so hard for her. I can’t relate as I have never been gone that long either. The worst I have dealt with is not seeing the Tornado for like 24 hours. I work the 3pm to 1 am shift and I swapped with the morning person and came back to work at 5:30 am. It felt like a life time, especially when I came home and she was napping and I ended up falling a sleep, so I didn’t actually see her until after 6 pm. This is going to be so hard for her. I hope she has a good time, I think she will.
Problem two, Mommy hates to fly. The funny thing is that Mommy has flown from New York to Africa on three separate occasions, though they were about 15 years ago. Now a little flight from New York to Florida is giving her so much stress. Though I really am not criticizing her as I too hate to fly, though I am getting more comfortable now that I work in the aviation field and actually see that thousands of flights occur on a daily basis without any issues. I do need to keep in mind that I am feeling more comfortable in theory as I have yet to fly in the last three years since I started my aviation position.
Flying is going to be hard this time because she is flying by herself for the first time. I keep trying to comfort her with the idea that she is flying on big aircraft with a very good airline, which is helping a little. To further complicate things this is the first flight since we went to Las Vegas and we lost our first child, A Moment of Silence. So it is very understandable that she is apprehensive to fly. She is going despite her multiple fears, oh yeah did I mention she is afraid of heights. I think this is going to be really good for her and afterwards she’s going to want to travel more often.
Well wish her luck and I will definitely update everyone after her trip.
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you have been so supportive during all of this and I thank you. It was a great trip and I can’t wait to go with you and Tornado.
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Thanks for being such a supportive husband because we all loved meeting Kristina in person! Of course, she bragged on you and the little one all weekend!
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Thank you and believe me I know how wonderful my wife is and I try not to take her for granted. Please check back and I really enjoyed viewing your blog site.
Okay, I was excited about the whole idea of a free trip to disney and how she was picked for this…until I read further and then became engrossed in your post about a moment of silence. OMG how incredibly sad! (I only just found your blog today).
I’m so glad you were blessed again with a child. She’s so beautiful. Love her Halloween costume! Nice posts.
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You have courage. I fear flying more than death itself.
But hey, with free trips, maybe I would go fly on a plane too, especially if it’s to Disney World.