I want to be bothered by the fact that Boy has been absent from our lives for a while, as of late. Since before going to Japan for two weeks, we went about two months without seeing him. Part of it was his fault, part of it was ours. For example, Wife had Covid one week, so we told him not to come the second or third week after he had been here after coming back from his big trip.
He finally did come over two weeks ago, when my mom came to visit to see our younger Knucklehead playing football. It was nice having him here for an afternoon/evening while he recounted his trip to us. I believe his girlfriend was out of town that weekend for a bachelorette party, so he was not in a rush, which was nice. He has stopped by before after work or something, and usually rushed off because his girl is waiting for him to eat dinner or whatever they do at the end of the day.
When he came over, he was telling us his company is thinking of sending him to Korea around Thanksgiving for a few weeks, and then back to Japan, to do another tool install/update. If there was a slow down on him taking trips, it had to be Covid related and having some of those countries still trying to do lockdowns. In a normal timeline, I think he would have already been sent there and back many more times. I find the timing of his trips annoying; he might very well not even be in the country for Thanksgiving and even more importantly, Christmas. This is his job, he knew this was going to be part of it, and being that he is still young and honestly, loves the whole idea of Japanese culture, he is probably having his best life right now.
I am happy for him, first of all, he is contributing to society positively, he is also successful in a career path we helped foster in him. I just have to accept that we must share our Boy with the world, he is now grown and does not live here at home where we can interact with him every day. He came over earlier today (Saturday morning, the 15th) to say hi to his other grandparents, and it was nice to see them, and they ate a couple tacos with us before heading out to their day. They were in matching outfits and were going out to a pumpkin patch to take pictures. That is really all I ask for, an hour or two, he fills us in on what is going on, then he can go about his day. I wanted to nap, so it's not like I wanted him here all day either.
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