Come Home Day

Come Home Day...

By far the best day of any week!

It does not matter if he is home for 1/2 a day, a day, 2 days, or more, no matter what come home day is ALWAYS exciting and ALWAYS leaves my heart complete.

I told you the relationship with an airline pilot was unique, this is because every week he is my hardest goodbye and every week he is also my sweetest hello.

Hence the walkway you see when you first walk into our home. Proud of this wall, found the picture and the sign at hobby lobby and my awesome sister gave us that cute owl switch plate for christmas, this is just so us...

Nothing STINGS quite as much as watching him walk out that door or hearing his car start and then hearing it (and watching it out my window) slowly disappear down the street as he leaves for his trip. Sigh, it is the worst!

On the contrary, NOTHING feels quite as AMAZING as receiving the "just landed, on my way home to you" text message. (Side Note: The sweet "home to you" part gets me every time, knowing that he can not wait to get home to me makes my heart that much more joyful, I must be doing something right!)

AND...

Nothing feels quite as amazing as come home butterflies; when the garage door opens and I hear his car door shut I know that in the next second he will walk through our door, smile at me with his sweet 'hello baby smile' and take me into his arms leaving me breathlessly thinking "finally, all is right in my world!".

Every come home day is different. When he works mornings his arrival on come home day varies between 10am and 5pm. Obviously my favorite type of come home day (if I had to pick a favorite) would be the days he has morning arrivals back to base. This month however he is working nights therefore his ETA home is normally always past 9pm.

In the aviation world no week is 'typical' because every week his schedule changes. For example these past 3 weeks he has worked three 4 day trips with very few days spent at home in between. At one point I remember looking at the calendar and getting excited when I saw 2 full days that said "off" because I was getting so use to him only having 1 and 1/2 day breaks.

I am sure now you can imagine my EXCITEMENT this week when I noticed a 5 day stretch on the calendar with him home and only a out-and-back (meaning he flys in the morning but ends up back at home that night with me) scheduled in between.

In other words that means 7 whole nights in a row together, starting TONIGHT which is pretty much unheard of...

When things like this happen I say the aviation Gods are on our side because it is very rare we spend 4 nights together total at home in one week let alone 7 in a row. :)

A lot of people ask me how I do it, and I try not to focus on how because there are a TON of reasons that I could list which get me through all the ups and downs of this life but instead I like to answer that question by saying it is not a matter of how I do it but instead WHY I do it that matters.

Ultimately the answer to "how?"  and "why?" is LOVE....

Love is what makes every single bitter goodbye worth the pain. After all, every sad see ya soon day is followed by a happy joyful come home day that never disappoints...

SO that my friends is what keeps me going and that is "how" and "why" I do it...

Until next time...

<3, Heather

FLY HOME SAFE HANDSOME, SEE YOU SOON