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Kirsten with me on a trip
I give Kirsten a hard time sometimes for knowing nothing about my job. She usually doesn't know where I am, when I will be home, or really what I am ever doing when I am at work. It seems that she is somewhat different from the other pilot wives.
I fly with many pilots whose wives know where they are at all times and know exactly when they will be to the hotels. Some pilots place their schedules on the refrigerator door with the phone numbers to each hotel they are staying in. I have even flown with pilots whose wives make them check in with them when they get to the hotel. Once when checking in at the front desk of a hotel the pilot said to me, "I bet the phone rings while we are here checking in" and sure enough it did and it was his wife making sure he was where he was supposed to be.
Other wives seem to enjoy dropping their husbands off at the airport and picking them up sparing the pilot the hideousness of getting on the employee bus to the very large employee parking lot to get in a very cold car that has been sitting for days and get that extra 30 minutes with the husband. Kirsten has no interest in doing this :)
Sometimes I am sad that Kirsten has become so numb to me being gone so often but my point of this post it that I am grateful. I am grateful that Kirsten is the way she is. Sooooo many pilots tell me they would rather have the situation that I have. Personally, I sometimes think it would be nice if Kirsten worried about where I was, when I was going to be home, or what I was doing at work. But the fact is that she is a very trusting and independent person who has created an awesome life for herself even when I am gone. Ironically this leads to me wanting to call her each time I get to my hotel, text her in between long flight legs during the day and do a lot of the things that annoy the other pilots.
President Uchtdorf talked about how wonderful it was for him during his career to be married to someone similar to Kirsten. Hopefully she can last another 35 years of me working :)
Kirsten coming with me on a trip. Doesn't happen as often as I would like :)
9 comments:
Josh..she's beautiful! I love the bottom picture of you two too! I have no doubts that she misses you..just trusts you that's all! Though she's a lot more brave than I am. I wouldn't text constantly or call or need a permanent schedule of what Cory was doing..but I would start to get nervous if he didn't let me know he was safely on the ground! (I'm too scared of flying to not need that)! :D What a cute couple you two are!
Very sweet post! You do have an amazing wife. I know that she miss you so so much when you are away! You are a lucky man!
I love it! I wish you guys lived closer so
Kirsten and I could hangout when our Pilots are gone. I can totally relate to Kirsten it's hard keeping track of a pilot. I never know where Cory is and people think I'm crazy when they ask where he is and I honestly have no idea. Cory even put the stalker device on our iPhones so I could see where he is but I still haven't taken the time to figure out how to use it. I think Kirsten feels the same way I do when I say I trust him and I know he's always where he's supposed to be. : )
You did marry a pretty amazing person. This was a sweet post.
She can be this way because you two have a marriage with 100% trust. Great post.
She got this from her mom.
You're so awesome, Josh. What a stud. I submitted your blog to mormondaddyblogs.com - they are always looking for new people to feature, and I think you're blog rocks!
I've only met her a couple times and I think she's pretty darn amazing! You have a pretty dang cute family, Krawson. ;)
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