Finals Week

Chads gone

All week

   Finals weeks are so rough. Its funny because it seemed like it was easier when both of us were running around crazy with finals. Now that I'm here in the office and Chads just ...gone, I feel even more distant. I know it's apart of life and he's gotta finish up these last classes but I just want him home. People always tell me "well you think you hardly see him now, just wait til he's working" and that might be true, but at least when he's working, he'll have set hours. He'll have an office/place of work that he'll leave at the end of the day and come home from. Right now it feels like he comes home, studies some more, or quickly grabs a PB&J and bolts out the door to the next study group. Last night he wasn't home til almost 11pm and he left at 7:45am. Even when he's home he's not really there.
   Totally not his fault, my last few semesters, I was the same way, trying to get through the hardest classes with the highest grades possible and juggle a thousand things too. He's so good about making time for dates and Liam and I but finals week is just...yucky.
  
So in honor of finals week:

Things I wont miss about finals week:
-Waking up to Chad saying goodbye
-Sick Husband (when he's stressed he gets sick, headaches, colds...its not fun)
-Having to tell tenants that Chads in finals and wont be able to take care of their every need
-Over a dozen checkouts and check ins that I have to do alone
-Not eating dinner together (probably one of my least favorite things)
-Me personally stressing about Chads tests, he works so hard and it is a huge bummer for both of us if he doesn't do well
-Liam becomes a total daddys boy when he doesn't see Chad as regularly so not only do I get Liam 24/7 but I get grouchy dad-hungry Liam 24/7, poor kid. And being around a grouchy daddy hungry baby makes me a grouchy daddy hungry mommy sometimes.
-Totally crazy schedules. Chad and I are normally awesome at working our schedules so someone always has Liam and we get to do scriptures together and our companionship inventory and FHE and what not but now its "hey how far did you get with family scriptures this morning, so I can catch up?" and "can we do FHE on Thursday?" Which is fine, but, I miss the structure and reading together and not just Monday night but ANY night together. And poor Liam has seen his car seat way too much this week.

Tender Mercies of Finals week:
-We're almost done! Each tough day is a reminder that there is one less day of school ahead of us.
-Inside jokes. When Chad and I were dating he worked a lot and we would text during the day and email back and forth. It was actually really fun but when we got married we didn't have to anymore because we saw each other enough. Now that he's so busy, I send him funny texts and I actually get all excited and giddy when I hear my phones notification sound, telling me that Chad has responded in some witty way.
-Looking forward to going to the temple together at the end of the week. (we rarely go together since Liams birth but we found a sitter and We can't wait to double with our brother and sister in law on Saturday)
-Whenever Liam takes 3 hour naps.
-When something really "clicks" with Chad. He comes home so excited and pumped to take his tests when he really grabs hold of a concept.
-Liam's let dad sleep through the night all week long
-A really good run!