Not separate exactly, as I’m not having one… but Xander just left to spend 8 days in the South of France and I’m here alone. <\/p>\n
He’s going to visit his parents, which I’m really glad about. Especially that he’ll get to spend some quality alone time with his mom. That’s something they haven’t done in years and the last time she was here we were all busy painting and doing reno stuff so they didn’t get much time to themselves.<\/p>\n
I would have gone along with him but the train was more expensive than we thought, plus… it’d be expensive for us to find care for all the pets while we were gone.<\/p>\n
Also, he’ll be spending a good portion of the time he’s there at his fathers and seeing as I am ‘the root of all evil’ as his stepmother so kindly told my husband a few years ago… I wouldn’t have been welcome to join him.<\/p>\n
Ah well, it’s good in a way though. Xander and I spend so much time together (and we both love it) but the time apart really gives us a good chance to miss each other.<\/p>\n
It’s funny, he leaves for work every morning and I’m fine, but the house somehow seems 10x as empty when he leaves in the morning and I know he’s not going to be home at night.<\/p>\n
It also makes me realize how dependant I am on him. I get nervous when he is away because I worry about if something happens like I break my arm, the power goes out, or someone smashes a window. Will I be able to deal with this stuff on my own?<\/p>\n
Pathetic really, these things would have never even crossed my mind back in Canada. In fact, it would have been me<\/em> who set everything up and sorted it out. <\/p>\n I miss my independence almost as much as I miss him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not separate exactly, as I’m not having one… but Xander just left to spend 8 days in the South of France and I’m here alone. He’s going to visit his parents, which I’m really glad about. Especially that he’ll get to spend some quality alone time with his mom. That’s something they haven’t done in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-life-in-nl","tag-xander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}