My son is home for a 2 week visit...this is the same son who is currently deployed for 18 months to Afghanistan. He is on his 18-day R&R. The problem - for ME at least - is that he is using "home" as a parking place for his stuff or to come and go during the day while I am at work. But he's gone for days at a time and I'm not getting to spend time with him. He is spending more time with his friends than he is with his family.
I talked with one mother who said the only way she knew her son was home was that the laundry piled up and the food disappeared. I'm not even experiencing THAT! My son is doing his laundry when I'm at work and eating elsewhere so there are no signs that he was even home save the lonely glass with orange juice residue that he left in the sink....
Whining aside, am I asking too much for him to check in every once in a while so that I know he's okay? At least when he's in the war zone I know that "no news is good news" because should anything happen while he's over there, I know that I'd hear SOMETHING. This no-communication is killing me!!
OK, I'm done whining, at least for now.
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