It sounds bizarre but the Vegas shooting was kind of a blessing in disguise for me...it’s been…

It sounds bizarre but the Vegas shooting was kind of a blessing in disguise for me...it’s been almost a month and my husband has never spent so much time at home with us. Our biggest fight has always been the lack of family time. He works almost 24/7 and has about a million side jobs as well as a full time job. If he’s not at his full time job, he’s doing something else that 99% of the time that keeps him out of the house. We never had family meals, outings were rare, and date nights were even rarer. I would beg him to make some time for us but he said it just wasn’t possible. Too much to do. Someone always needed him to do something and our family was always kind of put on the back burner.

That being said, after the shooting I have noticed he is home almost every weekend. We at least have one day a week where he makes time for us to be together as a family. He now comes home after work and stays home for the most part. He’s home to tuck our oldest into bed every night (which is an absolute necessity if she is to relax and fall asleep. They always cry for Daddy at bedtime for snuggles) Pretty sure we have spent more family time together in the last month than we have in the last 4 years. I don’t think he will ever admit it, but he was so close to being in the line of fire that night that he’s nervous to go back out. And honestly my girls and I couldn’t be happier. They need their Daddy and so do I ❤️