Trying LRT - Please Help!

[motherof3]

Just spoke with H. His tone suggested he was a little bit agitated. The conversation went like this.

H: Hi, I got your email.
Me: Ok.
H: You know that January and February are busy travel times for me. You have known about the sales meeting (a week- long trip to Orlando) for a couple of months now.
Me: Yes, I know.
H: It is not my choice to travel so often.
Me: I understand, but it is your choice to an extent. (Oops, I slipped up here.)
H: People are getting fired left and right. I have to travel in order to help increase sales. I am not trying to intentionally limit my time with the kids.
Me: I know and can understand your situation.
H: I was asked to go on a last minute trip earlier this week and still was able to juggle my time with the kids. And just so you know, they wanted me to go to Las Vegas which would have interfered with my parenting time, so I told them no.
Me: I understand the position you are in.
H: Do you? (He is getting increasingly upset.)
Me: Yes, I do understand. Can we talk about this later tonight?
H: I don’t want a long drawn out conversation with you about this. But yes we can speak tonight.
Me: Okay, goodbye.

So here are my goals for tonight’s conversation:
1. To bring attention to the fact H is planning on not spending a great deal of time with kids in February.
2. Come up with a solution to this which may mean giving up some of my regularly scheduled time with the kids.
3. Remain calm, cool, and collected during the conversation.
4. H sounds stressed about work and job stability. Should I bring this up? Should I ask H if he would like to talk about it? Pursuing?
5. Validate. Validate. Validate.

Any input? What am I missing? What should I do differently?