i miss my daddy

yesterday the hubs had to drive to a neighboring state for work with the possiblity of staying over night.  he used to travel all the time, but in recent years its been less and less.  kman had a bit of anxiety about the fact that daddy might not come home.  even before the hubs left he was passing out "i'll miss you daddy" to him...which doesn't make going on the trip any easier. 
so, i had planned a quick dinner last night coupled with some cleaning because we have an appraiser coming to the house today (for a refi...woohoo!).  it was going to be easy pleasy, right?
WRONG...kman complained of a headache from the moment i picked him up from school...i had pretty much narrowed this down the cause to the fact that he didn't eat his snack for whatever reason and so he hadn't had anything in his system since about 11:30, i'd have a headache too.  they were "ok" for the first few minutes of being home but at somepoint everything went down the crapper...
at some instance kman started crying and it escalated to wanting daddy and then we were at full blown tantrum for what seemed like forever.  the tears were only making the headache worse and even when it was time to sit down to eat dinner we couldn't seem to stop crying.  at this point, i wanted to stop crying.  i tried everything i could think of and finally sent him to his room to lay down for a few minutes and hopefully stop crying.  doodle and i continued to eat and kman emerged again...still crying.  this time we called dad; which unfortunately only made the crying worse, and at which point kman thought he might throw up because he had been crying so much.  i myself am inches away from crying...doodle would belt out his own crys here and ther-mostly because he wanted more broccoli..
finally i just held him and massaged his head and temples and finally after what had been an hour he stopped and actually ate all of his dinner.  half way through the meal he commented on how his headache was gone. 

the rest of the night was good..we got all of our cleaning done, i got things ready for today and everyone went to bed and woke up this morning in a much better state.

i realize these days are far and few between and one day i'll think back and miss them...but while you are sitting through them it sucks.