![](\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/margiek-sfe-jun07.jpg\" "\\"Margie\\"")
<\/div>\nNo problems with Kitten, managing the parenting and home front. And, of course, Margie only left yesterday morning, and is back tonight.<\/p>\n
No, the impact is less on Katherine, or on keeping the house from burning down, than on just my missing her something awful. <\/p>\n
I miss her when I’m off on business travel, but that’s a generally stressful barrel-forward kind of situation anyway, so it’s tolerable. The setting is different, so Margie not being there is just part of that difference. But when she’s<\/em> gone, and I’m<\/em> at home — that absence <\/em>is the only difference for me to dwell on.<\/p>\n And …<\/p>\n … I’m glad she’s coming home tonight.<\/p>\n Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone Margie’s usually the one single-parenting, but this time she’s the one off on business, I’m the one at home. No problems with Kitten, managing the parenting and home front. 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It’s not warm when she’s away
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
She’s gone much too long
Any time she goes away …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"