I’m really going to leave him for a whole week

Ok, technically, we won’t see each other for six days, but it’s close enough to a week.  I feel horrible about leaving Oscar.  I’m sort of making myself sick over it.  I know that taking him around the world in the same amount of time would be a mistake, but I still don’t like leaving him.  In an attempt to make myself feel better about the temporary abandonment I’m about to force him to endure, I spent some time today putting together his daily gift bags from me. 

The intent behind the gift bags was to give him a little something each day I’m gone, something new to play with, to get him thinking about something other than the fact that his mother was not there.  I was going to get things like stickers . . . little things, really.  I started well, buying moon sand and those squishy balls, but ended up going a bit further, with six bags filled with a lot of cars and trucks and one special I.C.E. bag.  In case of emergency, Nanny Norma or my parents are to resort to giving him the chartreuse bag, which contains an extra special gift (a battery operated James engine with coal car – a train that talks and can pull some of his other trains).   To top it off, when Etta arrives, she’ll bestow the biggest gift, his Mustang convertible (thanks for the idea, Kelli).  I’m thinking we might keep the bags out on the counter downstairs, to show that when they’re gone I’ll be home, but I’m not sure that he’ll understand that.

Ultimately, this is going to be harder on me than it will be on him, right?

April 11, 2010 Posted by Oscar and Etta's mom | Oscar, travel | 13 Comments