April 18, 2004 - Sunday
I left home again yesterday evening about dinner time for another business trip and today when I called home Harry's mother told me that Harry had been strangely clingy all day. There's no real way to know why, but the two theories that we came up with were either than he was ailing physically in some way or that he just was a little sad that I went away again. Awkwardly, I left in quite a rush, having finished some important work before I went, but not having spent much time with the boys. And, this is my third trip in less than two months. My father used to travel on longer business trips when I was a boy and I can remember something of a sense of unease at the change away from the norm. I don't think there was anything particularly profound about those feelings, just that those times were out of the ordinary and therefore somehow awkward. I suppose for Harry those feelings of disorientation could be heightened simply because I'm the parent with whom he spends more time.

Gee, I suppose worrying about stuff like this is what can make parenting seem overwhelming at times.


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