Papa is home from Dad2.0

My beautiful wife and mother of my children spend 3 days without me and in the process posted a great piece on her experience and insight of Dad2.0. I just wanted to take a moment and say that it is only by her taking time off at her busy job to come home and let me go was an incredible sacrifice. My wife loves our children very much but she is not a mom that likes to sit around and watch lots of children's shows like I love to do with this kids. She has an agenda while I was gone to accomplish with the kids.
1. She wanted to get our daughter of 2 yrs off her need for a pacifier. It had served its purpose and knew she was only holding onto it because we were allowing it. After talking a game plan through together she took to cutting the pacifier numbs off so that we Ruby woke up they were broke. She found them and brought them to Corie and they talked about it. She was sad and would point them out as broken but by the time I got home and she showed me, we asked her if she wanted to throw them away. After about a day I am happy to report that Ruby made her own choice to throw them in the trash. Success!!
2. She wanted to get on starting to plant our garden with a few starter trays of flowers and vegetables. When I came home this was also taken care of and we are on our way to having another successful planting and harvesting year.
The other things  we talked about did not happen and that was fine because the kids were coping with papa being gone and a little bit of sickness.
This was the first time I had been away from Corie and then kids for this length of time. She did great and gave me plenty of space to enjoy my time. We had a huge issue arise the very first day with money that caused some stress but she was my calming factor and we moved passed it (I will write in more detail in my full recap I am writing for later). I was not bothered to have to call to tell the kids good night any of the nights but I did make an effort to call Corie at the end of the for a few minutes.
In conclusion this trip showed us that we can function well as a family when I go to conference and that communication is still well established and not a burden but a very positive connection.
Keep a lookout for a future post when I release a short story of the entire experience of Dad2.0.