Something is missing

I am back. The lad is at day camp but is away on a three day overnight (2 nights). He left yesterday. It is freaky. Something is missing around here. I have spent time, extended, away from him, but I have been away, he was at home. This time he is away and I am at home without his daily presence. It takes some getting used to.

The wife is completely insane. She was chomping at the bit to call the camp to find out how things are going. Then she asks me if she is nuts. I guess the crazy acorn does not fall far from the crazy tree, or in the case of in laws, the crazy orchard. It is not just one crazy tree but whole crazy forest, complete with crazy squirrels.

Anyway, I told her that "no news is good news". The camp would call only if there was a problem, so no call means no problem. That calmed her down a bit but so did speaking to her friend whose son just came home from two weeks of overnight camp. I still wonder why she needs somebody to talk sense into her. Why can she not calm herself down? Why does she not see that her neuroses makes the lad nervous, yet she cannot factor herself out of the equation? Those are rhetorical questions, by the way, and I do know that we have not studied rhetoricals here, so they will not be on the quiz at the end of the posting.

That is all for today. I mean it is good. The world has not come to an end. The Fed paused its rise of interest rates. What can go wrong? Haha. Ciao!