Being lonely...a feeling I am not used to

Well, Tyler was called out on another fire on Thursday, August 28th. He found out at 11:00pm on Wednesday and left at 4:15am on Thursday morning. While I am so thankful that he is able to go and do something he enjoys for great pay, I am surprised by how lonely I am this time. I think the short notice doesn't help and he has to call me from someone else's cell phone so we only talk for 5 minutes so that we don't use all of their minutes. I am not a lonely person, I am an only child. My sister-in-law and cousin hung out with me for over 24 hrs...as soon as they left I was all teary eyed. Ahh! Not used to this. Although it is a wonderful feeling to know that I miss him so much because he is the love of my life.

Clean Clean Clean

Well, although I don't mind cleaning and organizing...I just can't keep up. So this last weekend we had a garage sale, got rid of most of the stuff we put out and made $150! Even though some junk is out of the house it was still a MESS. So, I asked my sister-in-law if I could hire her for a weekend to clean my house. She said yes, and now my house is amazing! Seriously, I love it. And now it is easier to keep up on the cleaning. I feel so blessed that she would help me out like that. It was so great because it was the weekend before I start school full time while still working full time. Yikes! Friday we are having some friends over for dinner and I am not stressed about my house being clean at all! What a great feeling! Thank goodness for Tara, my wonderful sister-in-law.

My Man is home!

Tyler came home today from a fire in Burns, OR. He goes out on a fire or two each summer and works with the water pumps and weed wash. It is a great opportunity for money and it is so good for our marriage. I don't know what it is, but when he is gone/I am gone we learn so much. This time I had to do his "chores." Tyler does all of the yard work (I help and do flowers). We don't have inground sprinklers so he is always outside watering, moving the sprinkler, planting grass, laying sod, spreading fertilizer, etc. While he was gone I watered a couple of times a day, took the garbage out, etc. It made me realize how much he does to keep our house a home. It was such a blessing to have a couple of days to realize that I really don't do it all and I am blessed to have a helper. I highly recommend a few days apart for every couple. When he got home I saw him for about 15 minutes on my lunch break. I think he made me laugh the entire time! It is so nice to have him back, we both feel so blessed. We have been married for a little over a year and the best thing about marriage is even on the hard days when we don't see eye to eye, we know that we are with the person that will love us forever. I am reminded daily that no day is truly a "bad" day.