Better today

Yes, today was better. I don't know why yesterday was hard but I felt a lot better today. The kids and I had a good homeschool day and we stayed busy. Hearing from DH last night probably helped a lot.

I posted more today over at my homeschool blog so you can read there if you are interested.

Today is the day...

Yes, today is the day. The day when it has finally hit me. Yep, it's hit me. I've been so sad today. This morning I cried as I typed him an email and then I was barely able to keep the tears back until we were off the phone when he called. It's been a hard day for me. I don't know what's caused it but I've just been down today. I miss him so much. It doesn't help that it's been raining off and on since Wednesday. Clouds always mess with my moods when they hang on too long.

Op! He's calling gotta go.

Beautiful

It was such a lovely day today. Nice and warm and just lovely. DS had archery lessons today and he did well and the weather was perfect for it.



The kids had such a good time playing outside this afternoon. I love watching them play together happily. They are 5 years a part in age and so sometimes it's very hard for them but lately they have been getting a long so well and it just makes me feel so good to see it.

I'm hoping for more beautiful weather so that maybe I can get out in the garden and do a little work. I also need to work in the kitchen. We let it go before DH left and now I've just been getting by in there and now I need to get busy again and get it back under control again.

Well, I guess that's it for now. I hope your day has been lovely too.

Doing okay...

Good Morning dear cyber friends. We had a nice Easter yesterday. It was kind of slow but it was just what we needed. We were able to talk with DH too and that made it wonderful. We are missing him terribly but are slowly getting back to our old routines which is good.

It's actually amazing to me how "easy" it is to just slip right back into our old ways of just about 18 months ago. It is also a little frightening to me. I don't really like being used to it or it feeling normal to us. But I guess for now that just might be best. I don't know.

Anyway, I have lots to keep me busy, at least for a while.

Such a hard week...

Well, DH left last night for a 15 month deployment to Afghanistan. This is his third deployment in about 5 years.

I have to say that whoever came up with the 15 month deployment has never had to tell their spouse, daddy or children goodbye for that long. 15 months just seems like a lifetime to me. Knowing it is for so long just made it that much harder. DH will miss 2 of DD's birthdays, 2 of her dance recitals, one and half school years, DS's first archery tournament, and probably his first shave. I'm sure there will be lots more firsts as well.

It was so very hard to tell him goodbye again. We were lucky enough though to have him with us for 18 months between deployments and we had a wonderful time together. He of course wasn't home all of that. He made a trip to Afghanistan, and several to Virginia and Florida but he was safe.

We had lots of great family time during those months filled with camping, games, playing and lots of loving. The last few weeks were really hard but we tried to squeeze as much into them as we could.

So, we will continue on and try to get back into our deployment routine and get through this as best we can.

Prayers are always welcome.