I wrote about separation anxiety before and I’m suffering it at a whole new level right now. In the past, I was telling everyone that I didn’t want to let go of my son for even a few hours. Well, now I am about to embark into uncharted territory.

Our representative at our North Carolina facility has resigned and it will be at least another month before we are able to fill the position. There was much discussion on what we would do. One of the ideas was that they would a hire a temporary employee to file and direct phone calls up to us at Corporate Headquarters in Michigan, but it isn’t practical to train someone for a couple of weeks so that they can work another couple of weeks. The second idea was to just direct all calls and functions up to us in Michigan, but that also lacks some practical every day common sense.

So, instead, they will be sending several us to North Carolina in one week intervals. I will be heading down to North Carolina on July 9th for the week. Now, a part of me is pretty excited. Our North Carolina facility does something totally different than the rest of my company so it’s going to be a brand new experience and a chance to put some faces to the voices that I hear on the phone.

Unfortunately, there is a large part of me that doesn’t want to do it at all. I tried to convince my husband that he’d like to take a trip to North Carolina with me. The plane tickets weren’t that expensive (ha ha), but he couldn’t take that much time off work. I have no worries about them getting along without me. My husband is more than capable of doing everything that I can do (more capable in some cases) so I’m not really worried. I just don’t want to be away from my son for that long.

My husband is a very practical man. He pointed out all of the good reasons that I should go until I finally reminded him that logic was not really playing a part in my current mood. He acknowledged how that was definitely the case. Well, July 9th is creeping up pretty quickly and we’ll just have to see how I handle it. All I can say is thank goodness for unlimited cell phone hours!

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