Brian had a LOT of traveling on his plate for work this past month. For a week, he went to London and then Belgium, returning for the weekend before heading to Singapore (a 24-hour flight each way and something like a 13 hour time difference…sadly, we never quite figured that out in the 2 days he spent working there). Last Friday, he arrived at O’Hare early in the morning. He came home, had a nice long nap, and then went to the school about an hour before regular dismissal to steal the kids away. I had stopped by the office earlier in the day to arrange the surprise so the amazingly awesome secretaries at our school took quite a delight in seeing each of our children called down to the office to see daddy ready to steal them away (I went to watch their reactions before assuring them that I was retuning home, not to intrude on their boy’s-only hooky adventure).

Brian took them shopping for updated soccer stuff to “kick off” the new season (sorry…I couldn’t help myself!), to a BBQ place for a snack. After that, they hit a fro-yo joint and then met me at our weekly TGIF gathering (where Joel gave the boys their hot sauce…see previous post).

Despite his crazy traveling schedule, Brian always finds a fun way to make special time for his little men!!

Outside of the school as they steal away early: One Jet-Lagged daddy and three delighted boys!