This is the very first time I’ve ever had to do this without him.
I don’t really like it.
Sometimes you don’t appreciate what you have until you don’t have it anymore.
For the past eight years, Erv and I have been attending SIFE competitions together. The college students we work with present their community outreach projects at regional and national competitions. It’s always an exciting time to celebrate the work we enjoy doing together.
Except this time.
I am in Kansas City, MO. Erv is in Rochester, NY.
On Wednesdsay Erv and I are headed to India with these very same college students. We’ll be working with an orphanage and a school for impoverished children. We will be there for two weeks, away from our own kids.
With this extended trip right around the corner, we agreed it would be best for one of us to stay home with our children while the other attended the national SIFE competition in Kansas City, MO this week. We decided it would be best for Erv to stay home.
Today our students did an amazing job at competition and placed first in their league in the opening round!! It’s exciting and rewarding.
I only wish Erv was here to share it with me. It’s just not the same.
When we experience something wonderful, we want to share it with the people we love most. I love my students and the co-workers that I am here with. It’s been a terrific time.
But no one compares to Erv… and I’m glad.
After twenty years of being together, I’m glad he’s still the person I want to be with most. He is the one I most want to share my successes and failures with. He understands my heart like no one else.
What do you miss most when you’re separated from your spouse?
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After a long week of being apart, Erv and I are happily reunited.
