Grateful

So here I am again sitting at the airport and waiting for a flight that is only scheduled to leave in over three hours from now!!! I know your first thought is that my flight is probably delayed and so what if you have a small delay, “I once was delayed for 24 hours” I hear you say. No my flight is on time and no I am not crazy and just enjoy sitting at the airport for hours on end.

If you recall I’m a long way from home due to work and my colleague, the single one with no ties or responsibilities is flying back home three hours before me. You know, scheduling and all that. All the flights were not only fully booked but overbooked and I am actually grateful that I got a flight back home.

So here I am, the expectant father, 5 hours away from being reunited with my fiancé and I’m “enjoying” the last bite of my “insert your favourite fast food chain here” meal in the airport cafeteria. All I can think of, all I have thought of since the second I left for this trip is how much I love and miss my fiancé.

Staying in a beautiful lodge in the middle of a coastal jungle made it harder. I want to share everything with her and not being able to share the surroundings really bugged me, but some good came from this miserable trip. My parents made sure that my fiancé visited with them every evening. They even supplied dinner. She spent more time with them this last week, than I did in a month and this brings me to the main point of this post.

When you are relatively young, or is 30 just old now, it is important to have all the support you can get if you have a child. Never underestimate the value of family that can assist with your upcoming parenthood.

We usually only think of this assistance when the baby is already here and when there is a monetary value added, but my parents just being there for my fiancé this week was priceless. They were amazing by just inviting her over and chatting to her to help her get over me not being there and providing some human contact. My future mother in law is also arriving this weekend for a quick trip. Another priceless, non-monetary act of assistance to help us get the house in order and make things a bit more comfortable for my fiancé.

They may never read this but I would like to thank our parents and all the other grandparents that assist us when there is a young one on the way. We don’t always say this and even if we do, we don’t do it enough. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.