My career choice, like yours, has required extensive amounts of time away from home. It piles up on you sometimes. Sometimes, it's hard not to take that home with you. Sometimes, my kids get the short end of things with my attitude and exhaustion. I'm still in that learning phase, I guess and am getting better about leaving that crap from work on the front porch.
You are ABSOLUTELY right though! Those little suckers will do something sometimes that make you realize that you really were in a bad mood prior to whatever they did. Those moments when you don't know if you should fall over laughing due to the hilarity of their actions or cry because you realize that they are growing up so fast and you've missed a bunch of it.
My kids, even when I complain about some of their quirks, have been my saving grace in life! I don't know where I would be had I not had them.
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