My wife left this week (rather unexpectedly) to visit her dying father in Moscow. She had been waiting on her passport from the Russian consulate in San Francisco, which is even worse than waiting for one of ours. In an unexpected burst of efficiency, they returned her passport to her in less than the minimum posted time of 3 months. So the day she got it, she booked passage and left two days later.
Unfortunately, the cheapest flights were for nearly a month’s stay, so she will be gone a very long time. But her father’s health is fading fast, so it was good that she went when she did. My saintly mother is helping out considerably while she is gone and I will be able to work and take care of other needful things.
One of her worries and a point of curiosity for me is how Misha is going to react to this. He is 19.5 months and usually that would be a problem with a small child like that. They typically would go through a “mourning period” for the loss of the parent and would have issue when they returned, but who knows what goes on in the head of a 1p36er. He is such a good, sweet kid. When I have had to travel, he will sometimes give me a “crusty” when I get home, but warms right up. Of course the most I have been gone at one time is a week (at home a day, then gone for another week).
In any case, I plan on having a good time with the kids. Try to keep their minds of missing the mommy. I will have to take em to the zoo or something.
