I will give you a quick rundown on the last couple of months with more detailed post's to follow. In the time between my last post and this one we have had:
- One Brigade going away ceremony
- I have achieved part of my new years goals
- 1 knitted lace shawl complete
- 15 pounds lost...then gained back
- 8 pounds back off again
- 2 date nights, including an overnight trip
- 3 gymnastic meets
- Several softball practices and 1 game
- 1 two week A.T.
- 1 four day pass
- 2 trips to get I.D's done with another one coming up
- 2 extra round trips to the Armory or surrounding area
- 1 birthday apart
- 1 major holiday apart
- 1 Sister-in-law's wedding, which kiddos & I were unable to attend
- At least 3 pity-parties/missing hubby
- 1 angry child
- 1 child doing okay (at least she's embracing the suckiness)
- Countless replays of Kathi Tracoli's "Psalm 23" on iPod
- 1 WONDERFUL group of ladies who may not be military wives are there for me anyway...they even listen to me whine!
- An average of 3-5 hours sleep a night
- 2.5 weeks with less
- 1.5 weeks without internet access
- 2 laptops, but only one WITH internet access
- 1 broken power cord
- Mobilization
- 1 "Crap, that was a do not tell the wife topic" in a phone conversation
- The beginning of what appears to be a great friendship with another wife
- 1 lost voice (GI Joe isn't even here to enjoy it!)
- Picking up some part time work
- Over a dozen links in our countdown chain
- Just as many pennies in our deployment pig
- 2 dings in the hood from hail damage
- 1 trip to the storm shelter
- and a partridge in a pear tree! (Okay, the last did not happen, but it sounded good.)
