Some thoughts for the day...

Today James left for work again. He was home for about 11 days. The job before that, he was in Pennsylvania for 5 weeks.

I have mixed emotions when he goes to work. When he goes, it means that me and the boys are alone. It is good to spend the time with them cause they are growing so fast. It means I have to fix the things that need to be fixed while he is gone (i don't mind it at all). And when I can't do it myself, Brady is always good to help me out.

But on the other hand, when he goes to work, it means that he is getting paid. And when he gets paid, our bills get paid and we can pay down our debt that increased when he wasn't working for 6 months.

It means that we can get projects done that need to be done. Like the stairs in the garage. When we put a door into the garage from the house, James put in a temporary staircase. It was a bit steep, but it was worked for the time being. Then while he was home he was able to build a new one. It is much nicer then the last one. He did a great job on it.

Also we started cleaning out the garage (that needs to be done at the end of the summer anyways ). James and I made some very cool shelves for the garage. He saw a pic of them online, and they turned out so cool! They hold some much of our crap that was spread out on other shelves through out the garage. But we were not able to finish cleaning out the garage before he had to go back to work.

I love and support James in everything that he does, tries to do and that he has accomplished for his family and himself. He can do anything that he sets his mind to. I love his willingness to try new projects, and then the look on his face when he gets them done!

I hope our boys are picking this up. You can only teach them so much as children, then they are on their own with what you taught them. And it is up to them to do with it what they choose.
I think we have done a good job with our boys. Time will only tell.