Ah, but now he's back; put him to work! :-) Have him run some of the chores you need done for you and your daughter; grocery, drugstore, etc. Does he go to the grocery store with you ever? Could be a good time for the two of you to talk. My husband and I go together. It's a little bit fun and I learn (am learning? :-) to keep from criticizing his choices so much, especially when I tell him to "choose" then don't like his choice.

But it's a good exercise for me, having us try to work together. We get some good conversations in in the car going to and from the store. We even have a fun new thing; we went to the money machine and I was talking a blue streak while he was trying to do a complicated transaction between two accounts and he had to tell me please to cease and desist until he was finished unless it was important. After a bit I said, "I have something important to say" but didn't say anything else until he was finished and looked at me and asked what I had to say and I said, "I love you!" :-) Now I use that as a joke, tell him to take me to the money machine. . . (this girl does like money too :-)

I still laugh remembering back in the early 1960s when my father got "hooked" on the grocery store. Safeway was having some sort of contest and he'd go get a gamepiece at any opportunity; this was before cell phones but my stepmother was no slouch, would call the manager of the store and have him tell my father to get. . . :-) I just gave my husband a complicated chore. I need more Albuterol for my asthma soon and don't go to my health provider for another month and she's "moved" to a different practice affiliation. I don't have my prescription info, the drugstore number or her new number :-)

I hope you're getting some things resolved with your husband and figuring out how to get a little "vacation" of your own Kimmy. I hope he had a good time on his vacation and is more relaxed and appreciative of you?