One day at a time

We are plugging along here without Chris, but doing fine overall. We have had a couple of quiet days at home, which I think were needed after all our travel and Chris being gone. We went to the library today. We had not been there in over a month- maybe 6 weeks or more. It is always a bit of a challenge to help Austin find books or read to him while Bennett is running around pulling books from shelves and leaving wreckage behind him. Fortunately, he is cute and outgoing and eventually someone who works there will entertain him for a bit so I can help Austin. We also actually played outside today. I was hopeful for the first time that maybe spring is actually coming. While there is still snow on the ground and it is definitely chilly- it seemed warmer today. And we actually hear birds chirping a lot when we go outside. Bennett now likes to run around and loves sliding and climbing up the jungle gym.

Chris landed safely in Toronto, but the flight left late from here, so landed late and he missed the last flight out to NYC. So they put him up in a nice hotel and he will hopefully get there around 10:30 am Wednesday morning (US time). He won't miss anything with the delay, so that is good. We have already SKYPEd with him once. Austin has funny ways of expressing his more negative emotions...usually with denial. He got so excited to SKYPE, but then barely talked to Chris. This afternoon he was a little weepy and easily upset and I asked him if he missed Daddy. He got teary and a little quaver in his voice as he said "I don't miss him. I don't miss Daddy" But of course he does, especially after so much quality time last week. We think Austin's love language is quality time...he really likes a lot of time with us.

Well, I am off to bed.