Andrew comes home today!

Bryan’s mom is flying Andrew home from Texas tonight!  Our little guy has been having a fabulous time in Dallas and in College Station since November 1.  As far as I can tell, he’s had a supremely wonderful time.

He called me a couple times on Aunt Melanie’s phone early in his trip, and then I spoke to him one or two other times.  It amazes and delights me that he feels so content at Granny and Grandad’s home that he doesn’t need to check-in too much with us.

Meanwhile, here at home, Bryan, Sylvia and I are having a wonderful time.  It has been so great to spend one-on-one time with Sylvie.  She’s been just loving all the focused attention.  We talk about Andrew, but since we know he’s safe and happy, we’ve been enjoying the increased quiet and calm around our house!

Speaking of calm, I had no idea how much calmer, and cleaner life would be with one child in the house!  It will be great to have Andrew back home, but life has felt pretty easy these last 10 days being the mom of only one.  I thought that Sylvia was the noisier, messier kid, but it turns out that when it’s just her and me, we have significantly less dishes to wash, clothes to wash, and toys to pick up.  Plus, when Sylvia is napping or playing with something on her own, I am free to do whatever I want rather than immediately turning my attention to my boy.

So that’s meant that at the end of the day, I’m less tired since the overall parenting and home maintenance work was less than what I’m used to.  The coolest part, is that Sylvia goes to bed at 7pm.  Andrew goes to bed at 8pm, so every night he’s been in Texas, I feel like I have had a whole extra hour of free time.  I can clean the house for an hour and still have two or three hours of free time.  And since I’m less tired, I can get more done in that time!  It’s been awesome:)

So we’ve been faring well with his absence.  And I CANNOT WAIT to get some Andrew hugs and snuggles.  mmmmm  It’ll be good to have him back home.

THANKS to Melanie, Granny, and Grandad for taking our boy.  I am so glad that he had fun with you!  Thanks for the parenting vacation!

PS. I pulled all the pictures of Andrew from Granny’s Facebook page.  Thanks, Granny for sharing pics of our guy to keep us smiling while he was away!