It was absolutely wonderful to have Beth and RJ with me in Ireland. Oddly, that is the longest amount of consecutive time that I've been with my family since last summer. Today, my first full day back home, I'm having doubts about going back to Ireland.
Yes, I still have an apartment there. Also, I just told them that I would be willing to stay on for the Build phase of the project (we just completed the Design phase), which would keep the current arrangement going through September.
I'm not sure I can make it.
I'm continually amazed at how quickly RJ is learning things now. He's also gotten pretty attached to his Daddy . . . and his Daddy has gotten pretty attached to him. It's going to get harder and harder to return to Ireland without my family.
I'm accustomed to taking on too much. In fact, it is one of my (many) faults. I love to learn new things by taking on entirely too many of them. However, it's easy to say that I haven't found anything more enjoyable than this new experience of being a father. Over the next two weeks I'll be reevaluating my situation, discussing it with my wife and my VP to see what's really workable, because I don't think that the current arrangement (me in Ireland 100% of the time with Beth and RJ visiting about 50%) will work for me much longer.
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